How effective are the ways that we conduct, fund and publish scholarly research? How do we know if research is being shared effectively, so that it can be used and re-used in the continual quest to improve our knowledge and understanding? What are the most appropriate ways to evaluate research and assess its impact? 

Who makes up the research community? How are these researchers selected, trained, promoted and rewarded? How diverse is the community, and how can inequalities be addressed? How do networks of researchers work together? What is the relationship between academic research and private enterprise, philanthropy or government policy?

Research on Research, Policy & Culture brings together scholarship on all aspects of the research ecosystem, building an evidence base for ‘research on research’ across disciplines and internationally.  All articles within this broad scope are welcome, particularly studies on research culture, funding, data management and sharing, best practices, research outputs, scholarly publishing, peer review, metrics, and research impact. 

The Gateway aims to support and accelerate research in these areas by providing rapid, open access publication with links to all underlying data.  The range of article types offered by F1000Research—Research Articles, Reviews, Case Studies, Data Notes, Method Articles, Opinion Articles, Software Tools, Policy Briefs, Systematic Reviews, and more—facilitates the dissemination of all research outputs as openly and quickly as possible.  Each article will undergo fully transparent post-publication peer review following the F1000Research publication model. 

To submit your original research, just use the ‘Submit to this Gateway’ button above. If you would like to propose a special collection on a subject related to the Gateway, or otherwise have any questions, please contact us at research@f1000.com.

Keywords

Research on Research, Science of Science, Science Policy, Research Policy, Research Ecosystem, Research Landscape, Sociology of Science, Research Environment, Research Ethics, Research Integrity, Retraction, Research Misconduct, Research Community, Research Culture, Research Networks, Research Funding, Research Management, Open Research, Open Data, Open Science, Open Scholarship, Data Sharing, Research Impact, Public Engagement, Research Evaluation, Research Assessment, DORA, Impact Factor, Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Peer Review, Open Access, Scholarly Publishing, Scholarly Communications

Collections Currently Open for Submissions:
AI in Academic Research
Guest Advisors
Giovanni Colavizza, University of Amsterdam
Vincent Traag, Leiden University

Innovations in Research Assessment
Guest Advisors
Simon Hettrick, University of Southampton
David Moher, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Data sharing: distributed, federated and collaborative analytics in future energy systems
Guest Advisors
Jethro Browell, University of Glasgow
Ricardo Bessa, INESC TEC

Coming Soon...
Reproducible Research Data and Software
Guest Advisor
Joe Heffer, University of Sheffield