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Arguing for scientific socialism in ecology funding
What makes an ecologist ‘successful’? How do you measure ‘success’? We’d all like to believe that success is measured by our results’ transformation of ecological theory and practice – in a...
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Conservation and Ecology Impact Factors 2011
Here we go – another year, another set of citations, and another journal ranking by ISI Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Reports. Love them or loathe them, Impact Factors (IF) are immensely important...
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Conservation and ecology journal Impact Factors 2012
It’s the time of year that scientists love to hate – the latest (2012) journal ranking have been released by ISI Web of Knowledge. Many people despise this system, despite its major role in driving...
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Hate journal impact factors? Try Google rankings instead
A lot of people hate journal impact factors (IF). The hatred arises for many reasons, some of which are logical. For example, Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge® keeps the process fairly opaque, so...
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A fairer way to rank conservation and ecology journals in 2014
Normally I just report the Thomson-Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge Impact Factors for conservation-orientated journals each year, with some commentary on the rankings of other journals that also publish...
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How to rank journals
… properly, or at least ‘better’. In the past I have provided ranked lists of journals in conservation ecology according to their ISI® Impact Factor (see lists for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 &...
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Journal ranks 2015
Back in February I wrote about our new bibliometric paper describing a new way to rank journals, which I still contend is a fairer representation of relative citation-based rankings. Given that the...
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Journal ranks 2016
Last year we wrote a bibliometric paper describing a new way to rank journals, which I contend is a fairer representation of relative citation-based rankings by combining existing ones (e.g., ISI,...
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Peer-reviewed scientific journals ranked by citation metrics (for ecology, conservation & sustainability subjects)
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Peer-reviewed scientific journals ranked by citation metrics (for ecology, conservation and sustainability subjects).
View ArticleDemise of the Australian ERA journal rankings
Earlier this week Australian Senator Kim Carr (Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) announced the removal of the somewhat controversial ERA rankings for scientific journals. Early...
View Article2010 ISI Impact Factors out now (with some surprises)
It’s been another year of citations and now the latest list of ISI Impact Factors (2010) has come out. Regardless of how much stock you put in these (see here for a damning review), you cannot ignore...
View ArticleDoes high exposure on social and traditional media lead to more citations?
One of the things that I’ve often wondered about is whether making the effort to spread your scientific article’s message as far and wide as possible on social media actually brings you more citations....
View ArticleJournal ranks 2019
For the last 12 years and running, I’ve been generating journal ranks based on the journal-ranking method we published several years ago. Since the Google journal h-indices were just released, here are...
View ArticleRank your own sample of journals
If you follow my blog regularly, you’ll know that around the middle of each year I publish a list of journals in conservation and ecology ranked according to a multi-index algorithm we developed back...
View ArticleJournal ranks 2020
This is the 13th year in a row that I’ve generated journal ranks based on the journal-ranking method we published several years ago. There are few differences in how I calculated this year’s ranks, as...
View ArticleJournal ranks 2021
Now that Clarivate, Google, and Scopus have recently published their respective journal citation scores for 2021, I can now present — for the 14th year running on ConvervationBytes.com — the 2021...
View ArticleJournal ranks 2022
As I’ve done every year for the last 15 years, I can now present the 2022 conservation / ecology / sustainability journal ranks based on my (published) journal-ranking method. Although both the...
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