About us
Global faculty of experts
Leaders in clinical practice and research select the most influential articles
Each article interpreted and cross-indexed
Learn what experts across specialties think individual articles contribute to the evidence
Unique ranking system
Faculty Members rate the significance of selected articles to help focus your reading
Saving you time
Customize the service and create email alerts that help you stay on top of the latest articles quickly and easily
What is Faculty of 1000 Medicine?
Faculty of 1000 Medicine is a unique online service that helps you stay informed of high impact articles and access the opinions of global leaders in medicine.
Its distinguished faculty of over 2400 of the world's top clinicians and researchers select, rate and evaluate the most important and influential articles, presenting a continuously updated, authoritative guide to the medical literature that matters.
Why do we need it?
The mass of literature continues to grow, making it unwieldy and time-consuming to stay on top of advances, especially those in adjacent fields. Faculty of 1000 Medicine saves you time by identifying the essential articles and providing expert opinions that explain the key findings and the clinical impact.
Who is it for and what are the benefits?
With broad, highly customizable coverage, it is an essential resource for anyone working in medicine. Physicians, researchers, nurses, allied health professionals and students can all use it as a tool to stay informed of the latest developments.
Benefits include:
- Time-saving: enables you to stay on top of the vast amount of medical literature quickly and easily.
- Informative: provides access to the opinions from leaders in medicine.
- Clinically applicable: offers perspectives on how articles affect, or even change clinical practice, as judged by respected leaders in the field.
- Cross-indexed coverage: you will be alerted to the articles that matter in adjacent fields that you might otherwise miss.
- Personal customization: email alerts and stored searches ensure you receive updated content regularly in your areas of interest.
- Cross-disciplinary: multiple evaluations of single articles provide varying perspectives across disciplines.
- Article Ranking: the F1000 Factor rates articles based on their individual merit rather than the journal in which they appear 'to further' focus your reading and provide a complement or alternative metric to the impact factor.

