General, Journal updates, Methods papers

New videos – FlexParamCurve

Have a look at our newly updated YouTube channel – we’ve added 2 new videos today, an introduction to FlexParamCurve and a subsequent tutorial. In the introductory video, Steve Oswald (Penn State) and Andre Chiaradia (Phillip Island) discuss how ‘FlexParamCurve’ makes nonlinear curve fitting accessible for non-monotonic parametric curves, through automated curve selection and parametrisation in a mixed effects model framework. They visit Phillip Island’s … Continue reading New videos – FlexParamCurve

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General, Journal updates, Uncategorized

MEE’s top papers

Check out our newly updated top articles page, which shows MEE’s 10 most frequently downloaded papers, in August 2012. The top 5 are: A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems by Alain F. Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Chris S. Elphick Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring by Douglas W. Yu, Yinqiu Ji, Brent C. Emerson, Xiaoyang Wang, … Continue reading MEE’s top papers

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General, Journal updates

MEE ‘highly commended’ in ALPSP best new journal category

Last night, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (MEE) was highly commended and announced as the runner up in the ALPSP best new journal award! The results were announced at the ALPSP annual conference dinner. Awards were presented for both best new journal, and publishing innovation. 4 journals were shortlisted in our category, and we were pipped at the post by Postmedieval, a journal of medieval … Continue reading MEE ‘highly commended’ in ALPSP best new journal category

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Journal updates

Latest issue and other articles

Issue 3.4 Our latest issue covers an impressive array of subjects: from metabarcoding (with associated presentation), to population genetics and population monitoring (with video explaining a microphone array system). Modelling and monitoring dispersal also features heavily with four articles, one of which is accompanied by a video for a novel telemetry system to track wild animals. Articles also include topics such as transient dynamics, a review … Continue reading Latest issue and other articles

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Meetings

ISEC 2012: Ecological statistics in Norway

So. Last week I was just west of Oslo, in Norway, for the third International Statistical Ecology Conference (as I write registration is still open). This is a core area for Methods, and there was a strong contingent of MEE editors, authors and reviewers present. This was a good opportunity to chat to them, and generally raise the profile of the journal. It’s always nice to get feedback, and also help potential authors thinking about submitting – and even one author who’s paper I had just rejected.

The weather was excellent throughout the meeting:

Norway being nice
Proof it doesn’t always rain in Norway

so, of course, we had to spend so much time inside. But what, you are wondering, did we talk about?
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General, Journal updates

MEE has an impact factor

Yesterday the ISI announced the 2011 impact factors. This is the first year Methods in Ecology and Evolution has been given an IF. And our factor is…

5.093

Our EiC is told how to get a good impact factor
This is really good, and we’re very happy with this. By comparison, we are 15th out of 131 journals in ecology, and ahead (just) of all of the other British Ecological Society journals. Among the other journals we’re ahead of are Ecology and American Naturalist. So well done to the team, particularly Rob and Graziella, for their hard work over the last couple of years to set up the journal and get it running (I’m just basking in the reflected glory here).
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Journal updates

New MEE article featured in Faculty of 1000

Another of our recent articles, Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation, by Seth Wenger and Julian Olden, has recently been highlighted on Faculty of 1000. F1000 is a platform providing post-publication peer-review and selecting only the most important articles in biology and medicine. Just 2% of published articles are highlighted on Faculty of 1000 each month. Ben Bolker and Michael … Continue reading New MEE article featured in Faculty of 1000

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General, Journal updates

How to advertise your Methods paper (and can you suggest better ways?)

Our latest wheeze at Methods is to suggest some ways of advertising your latest Methods paper. So, we now have a new section in our author guidelines giving some links to places you might want to go to to tell the world about your amazing new method to efficiently calculate the value of ecosystem services provided by the running of macroecology meetings. But we’re sure … Continue reading How to advertise your Methods paper (and can you suggest better ways?)

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