Altmetrics measures how many times a paper has been linked to by various websites and social media sites. Here's the top 10 list over Oikos papers' Altmetrics scores. If you click on the title, you get to the paper and can see their score. Click on the Altmetrics...
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20 January 2015
I hope you haven't missed that Oikos from 2015 changes cover each month! Each month a photo from one of the papers in the issue will be featured on the cover. The January cover photo was taken by David W. Inouye. The paper in questions is "Phenological shifts and the...
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25 January 2013
An NCEAS working group examining the future of publishing in ecology and evolutionary biology ( http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/projects/12651 ) would like to solicit your input. Our goal is to establish a baseline of your opinions on the current state of scholarly...
drupaladmin
24 October 2012
Recently, the Noble prize laureates for 2012 were presented. But what is it that turns these researchers into Nobel prize winners? What are the key factors that makes the difference between a winner and the average researcher? My interest for thistopic, stems from my...
I have an announcement to make: I am leaving the Oikos Blog and starting my own blog, Dynamic Ecology . This was a difficult decision for me, and not one I took lightly. To understand my reasons for making this decision, you first need to know something about the...
Susan Bailey's discovery of synonymous beneficial mutations continues to be the talk of the meeting, or at least that portion of the meeting that I hear about. Another good day for conversations. Had a good chat with Carl Simpson, a paleontologist who's using Price...
Fairly short tonight , I'm exhausted and I need to go to bed. Indeed, my exhaustion today caused me to embarrass myself when Elisabeth Pennisi, who writes for Science , asked me some questions about the meeting. I know who she is, I read her work every week, but I was...
Greetings from Evolution 2012 in delightfully summery Ottawa. My hometown of Calgary experienced an intense hailstorm centered on my house the day before I left for the meeting. I took this as an indication that it was a good time to get out of town for a few days. The...
A Canadian colleague has alerted me to a protest in Ottawa against the Canadian government's suppression of scientific evidence, planned to coincide with the final day of Evolution 2012. Previously I've noted with dismay the government's decision to cease funding the...
I've talked in the past about how to network at scientific conferences --how to overcome any shyness you might have in order to talk to the people you'd like to talk to. The Evolution 2012 meeting is trying an interesting experiment on this. Poster presenters have been...
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