Faculty of 1000

What Faculty of 1000 does

Faculty of 1000 (F1000) is an open research publishing platform and services provider, founded in 2002 by Vitek Tracz and headquartered in London through the legal entity F1000 Research Limited. The company operates F1000Research, a multidisciplinary open research publishing platform launched in 2013 that pioneered post-publication open peer review, article versioning, and the industry's first mandatory open data policy. Authors submit articles for immediate publication following pre-publication checks; peer review reports are published openly with reviewer names and affiliations, and all versions of an article remain individually citable and indexed in Scopus, PubMed, and Google Scholar.

F1000's primary revenue streams are article processing charges (APCs) for open access publication, multi-year open access agreements with funders and institutions, licensing/royalties for its white-label publishing venues, and professional services revenue from open research consulting. The platform serves individual researchers, research funders, universities, and academic societies through a partner-driven go-to-market model. Its 14+ branded publishing venues — including Gates Open Research, Wellcome Open Research, Open Research Europe, HRB Open Research, NIHR Open Research, Open Research Africa, the Japan Institutional Gateway, and MedEdPublish — are embedded with major anchor customers such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, the European Commission, NIHR, and the Health Research Board Ireland.

Since 2020, F1000 has operated as a subsidiary of Taylor & Francis Group, part of Informa plc, with a London-based team of 51-100 employees. The company expanded its product surface in 2024 with the launch of VeriXiv, a verified preprint platform co-developed with the Gates Foundation, and has continued to add new publishing venues across new geographies (Japan, China, Africa) and subject verticals (nuclear science, bioethics, international relations). F1000's business model is therefore a hybrid of B2B institutional partnerships (white-label venues and open access agreements) and B2C transactional publishing (APCs), with the institutional side dominating strategic value.

Name

Faculty of 1000

Legal name

F1000 Research Limited

Website

https://f1000.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Faculty of 1000 operates an open research publishing platform with post-publication peer review, serving individual researchers alongside major institutional funders and universities through 14+ branded publishing venues under Taylor & Francis Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Open Access Publishing Services: F1000 provides open research publishing services to funders, research institutions, societies, and associations. The company partners with organizations worldwide to support researchers publishing open access on existing publishing venues through open access agreements.
2. Article Processing Charges (APC): When authors choose to publish open access, they may be required to pay article processing charges depending on the type of open access publication. The 'pay to publish' model allows readers to access scholarly information without subscription fees.
3. Publishing Venue Services: F1000 offers independent, partner-branded publishing venues that are client-branded and fully customizable from domain name and ISSN to submission guidelines and research taxonomy.
4. Open Research Consulting: F1000 offers consulting services to help organizations identify opportunities for growth and overcome challenges preventing them from meeting open research goals.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

F1000 operates an open research publishing platform that combines the speed of preprints with the benefits of full publication through post-publication open peer review, article versioning, and mandatory open data integration. The company delivers a flagship publishing platform (F1000Research), a verified preprint server (VeriXiv), and over a dozen partner-branded publishing venues for funders, universities, societies, and associations, alongside open research consulting services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• F1000Research: F1000's flagship multidisciplinary open research publishing platform launched in 2013, offering rapid publication of research outputs without editorial bias.
• VeriXiv
• Open Research Europe
• HRB Open Research
• Open Research Africa
• Health Open Research
• Routledge Open Research
• MedEdPublish
• NIHR Open Research
• Gates Open Research
• Wellcome Open Research
• Bioethics Open Research
• Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research

Products and services

• F1000Research F1000Research is a multidisciplinary open research publishing platform that offers rapid publication and welcomes a wide variety of research outputs including null studies, negative results, and confirmatory studies. It uses post-publication open peer review and serves researchers across all disciplines seeking to publish and get credit for all aspects of their research.
• VeriXiv Verified Preprint Platform VeriXiv is a verified preprint server that enables rapid availability of new research findings and promotes research integrity through enhanced pre-publication verification checks and trust marker badges, supporting researchers in complying with funder open access policies requiring preprints.
• Open Research Europe Open Research Europe is a dedicated publishing venue for European Commission-funded research, covering outputs from Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, and Euratom funding across all subject areas.
• Wellcome Open Research Wellcome Open Research is an open research publishing venue for Wellcome-funded researchers to publish all their research outputs quickly, openly, and transparently in ways supporting reproducibility.
• Gates Open Research Gates Open Research is an open research publishing venue for Gates Foundation-funded researchers, supporting compliance with the foundation's open access policy.
• HRB Open Research HRB Open Research is an open research publishing venue for researchers funded by the Health Research Board in Ireland, providing rapid open publication.
• NIHR Open Research NIHR Open Research is an open research publishing venue operated with the National Institute for Health and Care Research, complementing the NIHR Journals Library to make findings from all NIHR-funded research publicly available.
• MedEdPublish MedEdPublish is a publishing venue for medical and health professions education research, operated in partnership with the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).
• Bioethics Open Research Bioethics Open Research is a publishing venue for researchers working across all areas of bioethics, developed in partnership with Taylor & Francis and the American Journal of Bioethics.
• Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR) NSTOR is a publishing venue for nuclear science and technology research, operated in partnership with the American Nuclear Society.
• Open Research Africa Open Research Africa is a publishing venue for African researchers affiliated with the Science for Africa Foundation, African Academy of Sciences, and Africa Research Excellence Fund, expanded to accept all authors based in Africa regardless of funder.
• Japan Institutional Gateway Japan Institutional Gateway is the world's first Japanese-English dual language open research publishing venue enabling researchers at Japanese universities (University of Tsukuba, Kyoto University, Nagoya Institute of Technology, University of Fukui, and others) to publish in both languages.
• Health Open Research Health Open Research is a publishing venue for researchers in health, medical, and social care research offering rapid publication.
• Routledge Open Research Routledge Open Research is a publishing venue for arts, humanities, and social sciences research.
• F1000Posters F1000Posters is a platform enabling researchers to share their conference posters and slides openly and freely.
• Open Research Consulting Services Open Research Consulting helps organizations identify opportunities for growth and overcome challenges in meeting open research goals, including Plan S compliance, FAIR data sharing, and open access publishing strategy.

Quantifiable outcome

• Articles with open data generate up to 25% more citations than articles that did not share data in repositories.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration14 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

19 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Kyoto UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Kyoto University became an affiliate of F1000's Japan Institutional Gateway following the lead of University of Tsukuba, enabling researchers to publish work rapidly and with full transparency.
• Nagoya Institute of TechnologyminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) became an affiliate of F1000's Japan Institutional Gateway, enabling researchers to publish work rapidly with full transparency.
• University of FukuiminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023University of Fukui signed up as an affiliate of F1000's Japan Institutional Gateway, following the lead of University of Tsukuba. Agreement enables researchers from the affiliated institution to publish on JIG.
• Science for Africa (SFA) FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021SFA Foundation partnership to create Open Research Africa publishing venue for researchers affiliated with SFA Foundation, African Academy of Sciences (AAS), and Africa Research Excellence Fund. Expanded in 2025 to accept all authors based in Africa regardless of funder.
• Health Research Board (HRB) IrelandcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018HRB partnership to create HRB Open Research publishing venue for Ireland's Health Research Board-funded researchers to rapidly publish their research outputs in an open and accessible way.
• Wellcome TrustcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Wellcome partnership to create Wellcome Open Research publishing venue for Wellcome-funded researchers to publish all their research outputs quickly, openly, and transparently supporting reproducibility.
• European CommissioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with European Commission to create Open Research Europe publishing venue for publication of research stemming from Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, and Euratom funding across all subject areas. Core strategic partnership supporting EU open science initiatives.
• Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGates Foundation partnership to create Gates Open Research publishing venue for Gates-funded researchers and collaboration on VeriXiv verified preprint platform launched in 2024. VeriXiv supports Gates Foundation's open access policy requiring all funded research as preprints from January 2025.
• National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNIHR partnership to create NIHR Open Research publishing venue complementing the NIHR Journals Library. Together they ensure findings from all NIHR-funded research are publicly available.
• International Association for Health Professions Education (AMEE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAMEE partnership to create MedEdPublish publishing venue for teaching, learning, and assessment topics in medical and health professions education.
• American Nuclear SocietycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerANS partnership to create Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR) publishing venue welcoming nuclear science and technology research.
• Taylor & Francis GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerF1000 joined Taylor & Francis Group in 2020 as part of Informa. Taylor & Francis is a major academic publisher providing global reach and infrastructure while F1000 maintains its innovative open research model.
• The DAISY ConsortiumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerF1000 is an Inclusive Publishing Partner coordinated and managed by The DAISY Consortium. Group contributes to mainstream standards, develops guidelines to promote best practices, and supports open standards for inclusive publishing.
• Publishing Accessibility Action Group (PAAG)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTaylor & Francis signed the PAAG Charter in December 2022 committed to meeting 10 commitments for making all content accessible and embedding accessible practices throughout the publishing ecosystem.
• African Academy of Sciences (AAS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAAS partnership alongside Science for Africa Foundation and Africa Research Excellence Fund to create Open Research Africa publishing venue for African researchers.
• Africa Research Excellence FundcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAfrica Research Excellence Fund partnership alongside Science for Africa Foundation and African Academy of Sciences to create Open Research Africa publishing venue.
• University of TsukubacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity of Tsukuba founded and co-operates the Japan Institutional Gateway with Taylor & Francis. In 2026, signed MOU to expand JIG and support publication of English-language books by University of Tsukuba researchers. Previously limited to University of Tsukuba and affiliates, JIG now welcomes all Japanese universities.
• University of Warsaw Faculty of Political Science and International RelationsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to create Stosunki Międzynarodowe publishing venue building on SM-IR's 40-year publishing record as a leading international relations journal.
• American Journal of BioethicsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Taylor & Francis and American Journal for Bioethics to create Bioethics Open Research publishing venue for researchers working across all areas of bioethics.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• JMIR Publications: Open access publisher focused on digital health and medicine research with innovative peer review. Comparable as a nimble open access publisher using transparent peer review and serving specific research communities.
• eLife: Non-profit open access journal for life sciences and medicine with innovative peer review models. Comparable in being a mission-driven open access publisher focused on transparency and reproducibility.
• PLOS (Public Library of Science): Non-profit open access publisher of PLOS ONE and adjacent journals. Direct peer in mission-driven open access scholarly publishing with APC-based revenue and similar author experience focus.
• Frontiers: Swiss-based open access publisher of peer-reviewed journals across science, medicine and social sciences. Direct peer with comparable open access platform, APC revenue model, and white-label institutional programs.
• PeerJ: Pioneer of open access peer-reviewed publishing in biology and life sciences, with a journal portfolio and preprint server. Directly comparable as a tech-enabled open access platform with author-pays APC model and post-pub peer review.
• MDPI: Large open access publisher of peer-reviewed journals across disciplines. Comparable in operating a high-volume, author-pays open access publishing platform with broad subject-matter coverage.
• BioMed Central (BMC, Springer Nature): Major open access publisher of 300+ peer-reviewed journals, now part of Springer Nature. Direct peer in operating large-scale open access publishing with APC revenue model across biomedical disciplines.

Emerging players

• Research Square: Preprint platform and author services provider offering preprint posting, journal selection, and editing services. Comparable as an adjacent preprint/research-integrity service competing with F1000's VeriXiv and F1000Research offerings.
• Authorea: Collaborative open research writing and preprint platform for researchers. Comparable as an emerging open research platform with preprint services and article-level research tooling.

Broad incumbents

• SSRN (Elsevier): Preprint repository and open access platform for social sciences and humanities, owned by Elsevier. Comparable as a major preprint and open research platform operated by an incumbent publisher.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

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