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Author Archives: Tim Vines
Molecular Ecology Cover Gallery
I’m delighted to say that a cover gallery is now available for Molecular Ecology on the Wiley Online Library site, so you all can see the great images we’ve been able to use. It currently covers 2010 and 2011, but … Continue reading
The Lost Art of the Response to Reviewers
OK- this is slightly tongue in cheek, but all this stems from things I’ve seen coming in to MEC. We all do our best to make sure that we evaluate papers from an objective standpoint, but sometimes the response to … Continue reading
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Data archiving and the JDAP
The new year is here, and one of the biggest changes it will bring is the implementation of the Joint Data Archiving Policy by a number of ecology and evolution journals. These include Molecular Ecology (and ME Resources), Evolution, American … Continue reading
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Rapid Publication
Another day, another journal launch that promises “rapid review and publication of high-quality foundational research”. It strikes me that most journals in ecology/evolution now have an average time from submission to first decision of 30-50 days, which is so much … Continue reading
Posted in peer review
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Comment articles
It’s never happened as yet, but I was wondering what my response would be if someone wanted to write a Comment article about a Mol Ecol paper, but wanted to remain anonymous. The logistics would be quite easy, but the … Continue reading
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Is peer review broken?
There’s been quite a bit of recent criticism of the peer review process, notably in The Scientist and by Michael Hochberg in his editorial ‘The tragedy of the reviewer commons‘ in Ecology Letters. As someone who sees thousands of decisions … Continue reading