[ECOLOG-L] Ecology Journals Impact Survey
My name's Daniel Hocking, I'm a postdoc in at the University of New Hampshire. This is the last week of my survey on the impact/influence and quality of ecology journals and the publishing practices of ecologists. I would like to get more respondents, so please take the survey and spread the word, especially to colleagues outside the US. The survey is anonymous and takes an average of 6 minutes. Thanks! https://unh.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8eT2TR8U0MEH4wt Daniel J. Hocking 114 James Hall Department of Natural Resources the Environment University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 dhocking at unh.edu http://danieljhocking.wordpress.com/ Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known - Carl Sagan
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Universal Impact factor, alternative to Journal Citation Reports
Calculating an impact factor from a larger database satisfies one of the smallest problems with the impact factor. I think it's already been done for the Scopus database for some journals. It is still a bit absurd to draw too much inference based solely from the mean of a highly non-normal distribution (usually looks like exponential decay with a few papers getting many citations and most others having very few). There are many better citation-based metrics of influence. I have a preprint available on the subject comparing 11 metrics for 110 ecology journals: https://peerj.com/preprints/43/ I'm still revising the paper and looking for an appropriate outlet, but as the article suggests, I recommend using the Article Influence score in place of the impact factor (still reporting in the JCR). The Eigenfactor can be used to make other inferences, and the SJR and SNIP (calculated from Scopus) can be used to compare among different fields of study, controlling somewhat for differences in citation and publishing practices. Cheers, Dan
[ECOLOG-L] Survey about Ecology Journals
Dear Ecologists, I am a postdoctoral research associate at the University of New Hampshire. I am conducting a survey of ecologists related to perception of journal influence and prestige. I am recruiting ecologists to participate in a short survey (5-10 minutes to complete). The questions related to the quality and relative rank of ecology journals. The perception of ecologists will be compared with various citation-based metrics of journal influence and impact. The survey is anonymous and will be used for peer-reviewed publications. The survey is voluntary and no compensation will be provided for completion. You can access the survey at https://unh.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8eT2TR8U0MEH4wt This survey has been approved by the University of New Hampshire Institutional Review Board. Please contact me with any questions. Thanks, Dan
