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Winners announced for ECR Reviewer Prize: Journal of Applied Ecology

Following the successful launch of our Early Career Researcher Reviewer Prize last year, we are thrilled to introduce you to this year’s winners! Read on to find out about their research interests and plans for using the prize money. We’ve also caught up with last year’s winners, too! In a nutshell The prize was created to provide ECRs with more opportunities for review experience, with … Continue reading Winners announced for ECR Reviewer Prize: Journal of Applied Ecology

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Early Career Researcher Reviewer Prize: Journal of Applied Ecology

As part of our celebration of Peer Review Week 2024, Journal of Applied Ecology is reflecting on the launch of the Early Career Researcher Reviewer Prize. How did the idea come about? The act of peer review (academic work being evaluated by others in the same field) is crucial to the research process. It is integral in helping to ensure diligence, determine originality, and improve … Continue reading Early Career Researcher Reviewer Prize: Journal of Applied Ecology

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Peer Review Week 2023: The evolution of peer review at the BES

Over recent years, peer review at the BES journals has evolved and we’ve employed initiatives such as double anonymous peer review, transparent peer review and reviewer discussions, with the goal of increasing transparency and decreasing bias within the review process… Continue reading Peer Review Week 2023: The evolution of peer review at the BES

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Peer Review Week 2022: Creating and supporting trust in research 

Peer Review Week is an annual event to celebrate the value of peer review and its role in scholarly communication. In this post, we explore how the British Ecological Society journals support this year’s theme, ‘Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research’.  The peer review system has been around for centuries and, despite some of its criticisms, remains a widely accepted method for research … Continue reading Peer Review Week 2022: Creating and supporting trust in research 

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Peer Review Week 2021: On the Benefits of Collaborative Peer Review

At the British Ecological Society journals we strongly encourage senior academics to review our manuscripts in collaboration with more junior members of their labs. We believe that this is fantastic training for Early Career Researchers… Continue reading Peer Review Week 2021: On the Benefits of Collaborative Peer Review

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Quality in peer review: tools and resources

From selecting your preferred reviewers to providing the most useful and fair feedback to other authors, peer review can be both challenging and rewarding. In line with Peer Review Week 2019’s theme of quality in peer review, we have curated this selection of tools, tips and articles to help hone your peer review skills and gain clearer insight into what the process involves.  There’s plenty … Continue reading Quality in peer review: tools and resources

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Necesitamos hacer que la ecología aplicada sea realmente global para enfrentar mejor los desafíos del Antropoceno

Senior Editor, Martin Nuñez An English version is available here. Hoy abrí mi página de Facebook y encontré personas publicando noticias y comentarios sobre rinocerontes en camino a la extinción en Uganda, algunos videos muy tristes de plantaciones de palma aceitera que ponen en peligro a los orangutanes en Indonesia y fotos de algunas plantaciones increíblemente grandes de árboles en Pakistán. ¿Qué tienen estos tres … Continue reading Necesitamos hacer que la ecología aplicada sea realmente global para enfrentar mejor los desafíos del Antropoceno

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We need to make applied ecology truly global to better face the challenges of the Anthropocene

Kicking off Peer Review Week 2018, Senior Editor Martin Nuñez reflects on geographical diversity in our own journals, where it’s been limited and what we’re doing to change that. How can we make ecology truly global? Update (Jan. 2019): you can now read our full Editorial on this topic for free in issue 56:1 of the journal. A Spanish version of this post is available … Continue reading We need to make applied ecology truly global to better face the challenges of the Anthropocene

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Peer Review Week: Supporting our Editors and Reviewers

As part of Peer Review Week 2017, and the topic of transparency in peer review, we take a look at some of the ways in which the British Ecological Society publications team aims to make the peer review process a little clearer for our Editors and Reviewers. Supporting Editors Joining an editorial board for the first time can mean seeing the peer review process from … Continue reading Peer Review Week: Supporting our Editors and Reviewers

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Video: What is the future of peer review in ecology?

It’s Peer Review Week and many are thinking about the course peer review may take in the future. What better time to watch the video of our panel discussion on the future of peer review in ecology from the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, 2016? This post was original shared by Alice Plane on the BES website. Peer review is critical to the research process but … Continue reading Video: What is the future of peer review in ecology?

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