The E4 Award | Ecography

We’re pleased to announce an open competitors for The Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution (The E4 Award). The E4 Award will probably be given to an early profession analysis scientist (standards under) who submits an distinctive Assessment manuscript that’s accepted for publication. The assessment ought to deal with spatial and/or temporal patterns, notably research of inhabitants and group ecology, macroecology, biogeography, ecological genetics, historic ecology, evolution, macroevolution, and conservation. If the award is given for a paper with a number of authors (not more than 5, and the lead and corresponding authors should be early profession) these assembly the early profession analysis standards on the time of publication will share the financial prize. 

The winner of The E4 Award will obtain 1000€ money and the runner-up will obtain 500€. All E4 papers which are accepted will seem in a particular subject in Ecography. To extend visibility and readership, we’ll actively promote E4 award papers on social media, and we encourage authors to jot down weblog posts and create video abstracts. We’ve got discovered that earlier E4 award papers are downloaded and cited extra usually than a median analysis paper in Ecography.

As Ecography is a full gold Open Entry journal we cost an Article Processing Cost (APC) for all accepted papers. If the winner and the runner-up don’t have any means to cowl the APC, they might apply for a waiver, as a part of the Award prize. Increasingly funders/establishments/universities have distinctive agreements with Wiley, the place a part of the APC or the total APC is roofed. Please learn extra right here. As well as, Wiley provides waivers and reductions to corresponding authors based mostly in growing nations. Learn extra right here.

To use for The E4, please submit a short (< 300 phrase) proposal as a .pdf for a concise assessment paper in one of many areas listed above by 31 March 2024 to ecography [at] oikosoffice [dot] lu [dot] se, with “The E4 Award” within the topic line. Please additionally give names of all authors, affiliations, electronic mail tackle to contact writer and date of PhD for all authors, after the title on the proposal. About 4 weeks later an invite to submit will probably be despatched to the proposals that made it to the subsequent step. The lifeless line for submitting a full Assessment paper will probably be 31 August 2024.

A manuscript-selection committee will consider these purposes and select a subset of proposals to ask to submit a assessment manuscript. These opinions don’t have to cowl a whole analysis space, and actually may be concise summaries (< 5000 phrases) of notably novel areas of analysis in spatial or temporal ecology, evolution, or conservation.

The manuscript-selection choice committee will assessment these full submissions from the finalists and ship the submissions out for peer assessment, in the event that they meet the fundamental standards for an E4 paper.

Accepted submissions will then be reassessed by an award-decision committee that can select the winner and runner-up of the E4. All submissions, whether or not or not they win a prize, have the chance to look in Ecography in the event that they meet the journals requirements.

Writer Standards: The winner will need to have completed her/his PhD not more than 12 years previous to the deadline (MSc college students and PhD college students are additionally eligible). Ecography realizes that life intervenes sometimes, so this cut-off is supposed to be a suggestion and never a tough requirement. Nonetheless, candidates ought to present a proof if they’re requesting an exception (e.g. absence as a result of household depart, dramatic shifts in analysis space, and so on.).

Manuscript choice committee and dealing with editors: Robert Holt and Rob Colwell

Award-decision committee: Miguel Araujo, Dominique Gravel, Christine Meynard and Jens-Christian Svenning 

Study extra about The E4 Award at Ecography.org or observe us on twitter @EcographyJourna or discover us on Fb.

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