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Methods in Ecology and Evolution is a peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley, covering Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

PublisherWiley
Reference styleAuthor–year (Chicago)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12 (3): 45–58.

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Publishes research inSpecies Distribution and Climate Change Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Plant and animal studies Marine animal studies overview
ISSN2041-210X
Citation impact (2-yr)3.88
h-index229
i10-index2,128
Total citations285,507
Article processing charge$3,500
Open accessYes
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websitewww.methodsinecologyandevolution.org
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Papers published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution per year

173
2014
204
2015
203
2016
242
2017
196
2018
221
2019
213
2020
266
2021
254
2022
244
2023
216
2024
287
2025

Citation impact of Methods in Ecology and Evolution by publication year

22.9K
2014
31.2K
2015
31.8K
2016
20.9K
2017
19.4K
2018
16.2K
2019
12.1K
2020
12K
2021
7.9K
2022
4.4K
2023
1.6K
2024
688
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A general and simple method for obtaining <i>R</i> <sup>2</sup> from generalized linear mixed‐effects models

Shinichi Nakagawa, Holger Schielzeth · 3 Dec 2012

Summary The use of both linear and generalized linear mixed‐effects models ( LMM s and GLMM s) has become popular not only in social and medical sciences, but also in biological sciences, especially in the field of ecology and evolution. Information criteria, such as Akaike Information Criterion ( AIC ), are usually presented as model…

10,237 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

Liam J. Revell · 15 Dec 2011

Summary 1. Here, I present a new, multifunctional phylogenetics package, phytools, for the R statistical computing environment. 2. The focus of the package is on methods for phylogenetic comparative biology; however, it also includes tools for tree inference, phylogeny input/output, plotting, manipulation and several other tasks. 3. I describe and tabulate the major methods implemented…

9,887 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems

Alain F. Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Chris S. Elphick · 13 Nov 2009

1. While teaching statistics to ecologists, the lead authors of this paper have noticed common statistical problems. If a random sample of their work (including scientific papers) produced before doing these courses were selected, half would probably contain violations of the underlying assumptions of the statistical techniques employed. 2. Some violations have little impact on…

8,138 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
<scp>popart</scp>: full‐feature software for haplotype network construction

Jessica Leigh, David Bryant · 1 Jul 2015

Summary Haplotype networks are an intuitive method for visualising relationships between individual genotypes at the population level. Here, we present popart , an integrated software package that provides a comprehensive implementation of haplotype network methods, phylogeographic visualisation tools and standard statistical tests, together with publication‐ready figure production. popart also provides a platform for the implementation…

6,835 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
<scp>ggtree</scp> : an <scp>r</scp> package for visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees with their covariates and other associated data

Guangchuang Yu, David K. Smith, Huachen Zhu et al. · 16 Aug 2016

Summary We present an r package, ggtree , which provides programmable visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees. ggtree can read more tree file formats than other softwares, including newick , nexus , NHX , phylip and jplace formats, and support visualization of phylo, multiphylo, phylo4, phylo4d, obkdata and phyloseq tree objects defined in other r…

5,292 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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