Year: 2022
Type: editorial
Abstract: Molecular Ecology (MEC) is committed to The Declaration on ResearchAssessment (DORA), which recognizes the need to improve the ways in which researchers and the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated (https://sfdora.org/).For this reason, we will no longer be promoting the impact factor of MEC as a standalone metric, but instead will highlight several different metrics that demonstrates it quality and influence in the community.These include the total number of citable items in the journal in 2021 (468, ranking third out of 52 journals in Clarivate's list of Evolutionary Biology journals), total citations (45,664, third of 52), journal impact factor (6.62; seventh of 52), and EigenFactor -which measures the number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the focal year (0.033, fourth of 52).The latter arguably offers a more accurate measure of journal quality than the journal impact factor.Molecular Ecology also ranks fifth among ecology journals and fourth among evolution journals as measured by Google Scholar's h5-index, which is the h-index for articles published over the past five years.This can be viewed as a comprehensive measure of journal influence.Lastly, the journal continues to see large increases in annual article downloads, which reached close to 1.9 million in 2021.
Source: Molecular Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16815
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4312200730