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5 October 2012
Too much h-index around? Number of citations, h-index and journal’s impact factors are easily used statistics in evaluations of applications for academic jobs and fundings. Easy – yes. But appropriate – not really. One of our editors, Stefano Allesina (University of...
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4 October 2012
Suppose you don't have enough friends around you to do well. Then a foe shows up and takes the place of a friend. What would happen? In our paper "Competition, facilitation and the Allee effect", we study the dynamics of two populations with Allee effect (you need a...
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2 October 2012
No excuses now, you can archive your data directly from excel files. A real snap! Here's the link, check it out. I will try it this week too. At this point, it does not seem to provide DOIs but maybe they will. http://dataup.cdlib.org Perhaps we should encourage...
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2 October 2012
Yihaa! Finally we're on facebook as well! Like us and get updated on new hot Oikos papers online! http://www.facebook.com/oikosjournal
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20 September 2012
Last week I attended the conference ” Innovation in Mind” here in Lund. It’s not about technical innovations per se, but more about the creative process that might lead to technical innovations. Or groundbreaking research results. Or the brilliant idea that allows you...
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13 September 2012
” fewer women than men are offered the career boost of invitation-only authorship in each of the two leading science journals”, states researcher Daniel Conley, from the Department of Geology in Lund. Together with his colleague Johanna Stadmark he critices this gender...
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12 September 2012
Cool Nature paper on how to predict success. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/489201a.html
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5 September 2012
In the July issue of PNAS, Fawcett and Higginson argue, based on statistical analysis of citation rates, that a high density of equations will increase citation by theoreticians, but reduce citations by nontheoreticians even more. They advocate putting a minimum of...
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28 August 2012
Each year, at the Oikos meeting, Oikos and Wiley/Blackwell together with the Per Brink Foundation, awards the Per Brink Oikos award in honor of Professor Per Brink. This year's laureate, Prof. Tim Coulson from Imperial College London gives you below a short version of...
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19 August 2012
Why being a Subject Editor at Oikos? And what does it really mean? Wim van der Putten, who has been Subject Editor at Oikos for many years, and for several other journals as well, gives you his answers: Why would you submit your research papers to Oikos and what would...
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