In good old tradition, including being too late, I provide here the JCR 2016 data for the top 40 journals indexed by what is now Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science in the subject area “Ecology”, released in June 2017 (see footnote 1). For comparison, see my old posts, summarizing the JCR 2015, JCR 2014, JCR 2013, JCR 2012, JCR…
As for the JCR 2014, JCR 2013, JCR 2012, JCR 2011 and JCR 2010, here the 40 most highly cited journals indexed by the ISI Web of Knowledge under the subject area “Ecology”. Rank ’15 Journal Publications IF’15 5-yr IF ’15 1 TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 72 16.74 19.42 2 ECOLOGY LETTERS 138 10.77 14.94…
As for JCR 2013, JCR 2012, JCR 2011 and JCR 2010, I list the 40 most highly cited journals indexed by the ISI Web of Knowledge under the subject “ecology”. To give you a reference to the general journals: Nature is now (last year) at 41.456 (42.351), Science at 31.477 (33.611), Plos Biology at 9.343…
The new impact factors (for 2013) are out, and as in the last years (JCR 2012, JCR 2011 and JCR 2010), I list the 40 most highly cited journals indexed by the ISI Web of Knowledge under the subject “ecology”. To give you a reference to the general journals: Nature is now at 42.351, Science…
There is no consolidation on the journal front in sight. Rather, new (open access) journals are popping up all over the place. While I’d be happy to dismiss them all on the grounds of adding to the paper flood, it seems that we need these new players to get some changes going in the complacent…
Collaboration sizes increase across all scientific disciplines, and Ecology is no exception to this trend. One of the problems emerging from this development is that it seems more and more difficult to remember all your coauthors. This recent erratum in Nature adds no less than five forgotten coauthors, in addition to correcting various names and…
Nature Publishing Group is launching a new data journal called “Scientific Data”. The editorial announcement in nature invites submissions of “data descriptors” to the journal, which are described as: Data Descriptor articles are fully fledged, peer-reviewed scientific publications, and will be listed in major indexing services, thereby giving authors the credit they deserve for sharing…
The website paperscape.org creates a beautiful dynamic visualization of the citation network that connects articles on the arXiv preprint server, resembling a view in the night sky. As you will see, quantitative ecology is a small cluster of galaxies in the lower left corner of the open access universe, dominated by the large network nebula.…
Are the research highlights of this paper by Prado et al. setting the trend for the logical sequel to #OverlyHonestMethods? Reminded me of another funny correction that I spotted a while ago.
As in the last years (JCR 2011 and JCR 2010), I list here the 40 most highly cited journals labeled by the web of science under the subject “ecology”, with their 2012 and 2011 rank, and their respective IFs, together with the most important multidisciplinary journals for comparison. Rank ’12 (’11) Journal Publications IF’12 IF…
The inadvertent? image-duplication in the human clone paper still creates some unrest, maybe less so with regard to what this means for the core results of the study (it seems most people think that those will hold) than with regard to the thoroughness of the peer-review and the ability to detect irregularities in high-profile publications…
In an editorial in tomorrow’s issue, Nature announces an initiative to increase reproducibility of research results. They state that “From next month, Nature and the Nature research journals will introduce editorial measures to address the problem by improving the consistency and quality of reporting in life-sciences articles”. The announced measures include To ease the interpretation…
Tomorrow’s issue of Nature has a special section devoted to the future of academic publishing. The topics covered are not particularly surprising (see also my older posts on this subject), but I found the articles really informative and enjoyable to read, in particular “Open access: The true cost of science publishing”, a News Feature by…
Staying with the topic of publishing: when PeerJ was announced last year (see e.g. a Nature News feature), I was a bit skeptical about how this would go, but I have to admit that my impression about the first articles that have been put online this week is quite positive. Not only are there catchy…
A news article in the upcoming edition of Nature highlights a new kid on the block in the battle for the publishing system of the future – it’s called Rubriq, a company that wants to “outsource” the review process from the normal publication process. Very similar to what Peerage of Science provides, but as a…
After the UK and the EU announced their plans to purchase a flat-rate open access agreement for parts of their research programs, it became public recently that also the particle physics community has negotiated a deal that will switch nearly all publications in the field to OA. As Nature reports: After six years of negotiation,…
Regardless what one thinks about impact factors, they’re out now for 2011 and will no doubt have their impact on science, publication decisions and research funding. As last year, I list the 40 most highly cited journals that are listed by the web of science under “ecology” below, with their 2011 and 2010 rank, and…
We all knew it, but now it’s official: Tim W. Fawcett and Andrew D. Higginson show in a new PNAS article titled “Heavy use of equations impedes communication among biologists” that The density of equations in an article [addition: in the field of ecology and evolution] has a significant negative impact on citation rates, with…
Nature published an interesting news feature on replication of psychological studies, or rather, the frequent failure of such attempts. The article describes the pressure on scientists to produce positive results; the problem of publishing replications in general, more so if they failed; and the ease by which positive results can be created through pure chance,…
It is a common place that knowledge is power, but it should be added that this power resides in the possibility of excluding others from gaining it. Restricting access to information used to be easy: copying a book required investments in terms of resources and labor, and it got cheaper per unit when many books…
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