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> ECOLOG-L@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of David L. McNeely
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:07 PM
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From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
[mailto:ECOLOG-L@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of David L. McNeely
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:07 PM
To: ECOLOG-L@listserv.umd.edu
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ecology (the journal) stalled?
Lonnie Aarssen wrote:
> I wonder
Lonnie Aarssen wrote:
> I wonder if Don Strong would explain to us why
> Ecology is still publishing on paper? No
> ecologist that I know reads paper journals
> anymore, and hasn't for years.
I read paper journals, and I have for years. i hope to be able to continue to
do so.
And l
I wonder if Don Strong would explain to us why
Ecology is still publishing on paper? No
ecologist that I know reads paper journals
anymore, and hasn't for years. And libraries
everywhere are cancelling their paper
subscriptions and supporting only electronic
journal subscriptions. In the n
Maybe we are getting semantic here, but surely if there is a “premier
journal in the ecological sciences…publishing the very best work in
ecology” (quote from Editorial), it would also be the “best” ecology
journal, in the colloquial sense of that word. In an ideal world there
would be no better o
regarding eco anonym's post about the change in
ecological journal impact factors over time (see
below), i encourage eco anonym and others to read
the following two papers that show that journal
impact factors are inflated (wilson 2007...sorry
for the blatant self-promotion) and that temporal
Don Strong, Editor in Chief of Ecology replies.
Dear Eco Anonym:
It is my belief that there is no best journal. One submits to the journal
that is most appropriate for the work.
There are no differences in editorial standards between Ecology and
Ecosphere. Both give two reviews to authors o
Traditionally/historically you selected a journal based on the subject
matter of your study combined with the geographical relevance it held.
For example, if I did a study on the reproductive ecology of wombats
from St. Clair Co, IL, I would have several options.
1) if the paper had wide ranging i
I summon people’s perspectives with regard to the “best” journals in which
to publish an ecological paper. Every year each journal writes an
editorial emphasizing all the super things about that journal (a
glass-half-full perspective). The recent one in the January 2012 issue of
Ecology raised my
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