Quantitative & Applied Ecology
Posts from qaecologists- PhD papers August 17, 2017
- Sunshine and visitors July 25, 2017
- Growth races in The Mallee July 12, 2017
- Three days of plant ecology in Germany June 13, 2017
- New paper: Can habitat management mitigate disease impacts on threatened amphibians? May 30, 2017
- Recent QAECO Posts
- Is there truly “no saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide”? May 16, 2017 qaecology
- Life in corrupt science: when metrics become targets April 5, 2017 qaecology
- Wanting to learn Species Distribution Modelling? Consider enrolling in our online subject! March 22, 2017 qaecology
- Reading group: An Italian wolf in Switzerland March 22, 2017 qaecology
- Qaeco’s favourite papers of 2016 February 28, 2017 qaecology
Tag Archives: metrics
Life in corrupt science: when metrics become targets
‘Publish or perish’. The overused phrase describing career aspects in today’s academia. Whereas day-to-day work is rarely quite as grim, we all learn early on that our performance as scientists is very much measured by the number of publications, citations, … Continue reading
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