Last week a few things happened in the world of science. One was the publication of the Journal Impact Factors (JIFs)… Followed by journals saying how wonderful their JIF is… And then everyone else saying how awful impact factors are. Methods in Ecology and Evolution is a journal, so naturally we’re obliged to take journal point of view. Which means we need to get really … Continue reading Our 2019 Impact Factor: Now We are Seven
The annual flagellation of scientist is here – we all know the impact factor is awful, but some people still think it is important. So, here is ours…
6.344
Once more, it is a number with three decimal places.
Continue reading “The MEE 2015 Impact Factor”
Thomson-Reuters have just released this year’s Impact Factors. The Methods in Ecology and Evolution Impact Factor is now an astounding 6.554, up from a truly dismal 5.322 last year. We now have enough years of Impact Factors to make it worthwhile drawing a graph.
This puts us ninth in Ecology, and we would be fifth in Evolutionary Biology if Thomson-Reuters thought we published stuff in Evolutionary Biology. We would also be top in Statistics and Substance Abuse if we could get ourselves into either of those categories. Continue reading “The Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5th Anniversary Impact Factor”
Yesterday Thomson-Reuters finally released their impact factors for 2013. And ours is … 5.322 Which has gone down by 0.602 from last year. This also means we’ve moved down to 15th in the Ecology rankings. And what is worse is that the Journal of Ecology has overtaken us! Impact factors are notorious for only covering 2 years of citations, which is not a long time … Continue reading Our New Impact Factor (or why the five year impact factor is much much much more important)
It’s been two years since the British Ecological Society and Wiley-Blackwell launched Methods in Ecology and Evolution, and the journal has got off to a fantastic start. Tremendous interest in the Society’s youngest publication, and an abundance of high-quality submissions, have led to its switch from quarterly to bi-monthly publication. Authors have proven quick to embrace the use of online technologies to improve the uptake … Continue reading Accessing Methods in 2012
Just a quick post to highlight that Methods in Ecology and Evolution is starting to be indexed on the Web of Knowledge, with 3 of our issues included for the first time this week in the online database. This is great news: it will make our papers visible to a wide audience and eventually we will get an impact factor. We are already getting lots … Continue reading MEE now to be found on ISI Web of Knowledge
We launched Methods in Ecology in Evolution because we thought that there was a huge demand for methods papers: those doing science need to be kept up to date on new approaches, and those developing new methods need a place to publish, as well as be supported in getting their methods used. Our first volume has exceeded all expectations and we are really pleased to … Continue reading Volume 2 Issue 1: Now online
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