The Methods in Ecology and Evolution team would like to thank all reviewers who contributed to the journal in 2012! We greatly appreciate the voluntary time and effort that it takes to peer review articles, and without this expertise and commitment Methods would not be such a great success. The full list of our 2012 reviewers can be found here. Continue reading Thank you to our 2012 reviewers
From January 2013, Methods will be published in 12 issues a year (rather than 6). Our page budget has not changed since last year, which means that we’ll publish roughly the same number of articles over the year in total, but our issues will be shorter and more frequent. The aim of this is to make sure that our articles are included in an issue … Continue reading 12 issues a year
Methods has introduced a new stage in its publishing process! When an article is accepted for publication, it can now be posted online within ~2 working days as an ‘Accepted Article’, prior to proofing, copyediting, typesetting and pagination. The article will be assigned its DOI (digital object identifier) at this stage, and so can be cited as normal. The article will then slot back into … Continue reading Methods new ‘Accepted Articles’
In this short video, Sarah Burthe explains the rationale for developing endoscopy as a method for non-destructively measuring endoparasites in European shag hosts. In her recently published article, Sarah concludes that endoscopy has considerable potential for investigating individual variation and temporal changes in endoparasite burdens and drug efficacy. Read the article: Endoscopy as a novel method for assessing endoparasite burdens in free-ranging European shags (Phalacrocorax … Continue reading New Video: Endoscopy rationale
Issue 3.6 is now available online, encompassing a variety of articles on animal movement, communities, populations, surveys, and decision-making. The Editors highlights include the application article Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R byRichard G. FitzJohn, and the research article Projecting species’ range expansion dynamics: sources of systematic biases when scaling up patterns and processes by Greta Bocedi and colleagues. There are 7 freely … Continue reading Issue 3.6
Methods in Ecology and Evolution (MEE) and the 4 other BES journals recently announced a partnership with Wiley‘s open access journal, Ecology and Evolution. We now offer the authors of good quality research that we are unable to publish, the option to transfer their article to Ecology and Evolution. If the authors of a rejected article are offered this option, and if they choose to … Continue reading New rapid manuscript transferral system to Ecology and Evolution
Methods has recently introduced a new submission requirement on page 1 of the ScholarOne submissions website, called a “Tweetable abstract”. This box should ideally contain the article’s novelty and/or main finding in less than 120 characters (note that’s 120 characters, not words, which is a mistake a few authors have made so far!). If the article is accepted, this text will then be used to … Continue reading Tweetable abstracts
Method’s latest video, “Diversitree”, is now available to view on our YouTube channel. In this quirky demonstration, Mr Blueberry and Fairly-Small-Yellow-Bird disagree on how colour affects the diversification of birds. Rich FitzJohn shows them how to test their hypotheses using the comparative phylogenetic methods implemented in the R package “diversitree”, recently described in the Methods paper “Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R“. This … Continue reading Diversitree video – starring Mr Blueberry and Fairly-Small-Yellow-Bird
Open Access Week is now underway, from today until the 28th October. Organised by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), this week-long event aims to promote and raise awareness of open access publishing within the scientific and academic research community. Institutions and universities from all over the world are getting involved and there’s an extensive calender of events that you can browse through … Continue reading Open Access Week 2012
Have a look at the latest Methods video! In issue 3.5, Martin Sullivan and colleagues published an article which deals with the problems of predicting non-native species distribution. They used dispersion weighting models to overcome this and then applied the method to a real case study, the distribution of common waxbill Estrilda astrild in the Iberian Peninsula. They then developed this accompanying video, which you … Continue reading Another Methods video on YouTube – Modelling dispersal-limited species
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