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New Impact Factors for conservation journals
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ISI 2009 Impact Factors now out
Last year I reported the 2008 ISI Impact Factors for some prominent conservation journals and a few other journals occasionally publishing conservation-related material. ISI just released the 2009...
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Conservation Letters citation statistics
As most CB readers will know, the ‘new’ (as of 2008) conservation journal kid on the block that I co-edit, Conservation Letters, was ISI-listed this year. This allows us to examine our citation...
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Demise 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...
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2010 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...
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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 ArticleNew Impact Factors for conservation journals
For those of you who follow the ISI Impact Factors for journals (the ratio of the number of total citations i+3 for the papers published in years i and i+1 divided by the total number of citable papers...
View ArticleISI 2009 Impact Factors now out
Last year I reported the 2008 ISI Impact Factors for some prominent conservation journals and a few other journals occasionally publishing conservation-related material. ISI just released the 2009...
View ArticleConservation Letters citation statistics
As most CB readers will know, the ‘new’ (as of 2008) conservation journal kid on the block that I co-edit, Conservation Letters, was ISI-listed this year. This allows us to examine our citation...
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...
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