Long-Term Studies Contribute Disproportionately to Ecology and Policy
Long-Term Studies Contribute Disproportionately to Ecology and Policy
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DOI：
10.1093/biosci/biw185
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发表时间：
2017-03-01
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
Carr, Mark H.
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作者：
Hughes, Brent B.;Beas-Luna, Rodrigo;Carr, Mark H.
随着长期生态和环境研究 (LTEES) 对我们了解物种和生态系统如何应对全球气候变化的贡献变得更加紧迫，LTEES 的相对数量和投资正在下降。为了评估 LTEES 对推进生态学领域的价值，我们评估了引用率和研究持续时间之间的关系，以及 LTEES 与 15 种生态期刊影响因子的表征。我们发现，LTEES 的比例随着期刊影响因子的增加而增加，并且随着期刊影响因子的增加，引用率和研究持续时间之间的正相关关系也更强。我们还发现，为政策提供信息而撰写的报告中 LTEES 的代表性高于其在生态文献中的代表性，并且其作者特别重视 LTEES。我们的结论是，应该认真重新考虑生态学家和资助者对 LTEES 的相对投资，以推进生态学及其对环境政策的贡献。
As the contribution for long-term ecological and environmental studies (LTEES) to our understanding of how species and ecosystems respond to a changing global climate becomes more urgent, the relative number and investment in LTEES are declining. To assess the value of LTEES to advancing the field of ecology, we evaluated relationships between citation rates and study duration, as well as the representation of LTEES with the impact factors of 15 ecological journals. We found that the proportionate representation of LTEES increases with journal impact factor and that the positive relationship between citation rate and study duration is stronger as journal impact factor increases. We also found that the representation of LTEES in reports written to inform policy was greater than their representation in the ecological literature and that their authors particularly valued LTEES. We conclude that the relative investment in LTEES by ecologists and funders should be seriously reconsidered for advancing ecology and its contribution to informing environmental policy.