Publication and Rejection among Successful Ecologists

A possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication output among ecologists

Publication output is the standard by which scientific productivity is evaluated. Despite a plethora of papers on the issue of publication and citation biases, no study has so far considered a possible effect of social activities on publication output. One of the most frequent social activities in the world is drinking alcohol. In Europe, most alcohol is consumed as beer and, based on well know...

Scientific publication: How to handle rejection?

Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists.

Closer collaboration among ecologists, systematists, and evolutionary biologists working in tropical forests, centred on studies within long-term permanent plots, would be highly beneficial for their respective fields. With a key unifying theme of the importance of vouchered collection and precise identification of species, especially rare ones, we identify four priority areas where improving l...

Plant Signaling 2000. Cross talk among geneticists, physiologists, and ecologists.

Plants respond in complex ways to their environment, to their internal physiological status, and to the activity of other plants, pathogens, herbivores, and organisms. Plant Signaling 2000, a symposium sponsored by the Penn State Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Physiology (May 18-20, 2000), explored the machinery underlying these responses and their potential for cross talk. We recount h...

Rejection of rejection: a novel approach to overcoming barriers to publication.

All academics aim to publish in high impact journals. However, many leading scientific and medical journals reject more than 80% of the manuscripts they receive, making rejection the biggest barrier to publication in high quality journals. We propose a novel solution to this problem. It involves very little extra work by submitting authors, is applicable to a wide range of circumstances (such a...