[ECOLOG-L] Ecology Journals Impact Survey

2013-08-28 Thread Daniel Hocking
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

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Universal Impact factor, alternative to Journal Citation Reports

2013-08-26 Thread Daniel Hocking
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

[ECOLOG-L] Survey about Ecology Journals

2013-07-30 Thread Daniel Hocking
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