Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ecological Monographs is going through some important changes, and 2023 will be a transformative year with the creation of a brand-new board of editors. We have recently welcomed Mar Sobral as our new Associate Editor-in-Chief, Matthias Schleuning as our new Editor of Concepts & Synthesis, and Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal as a Subject-matter Editor who will also coordinate our Diversity and Mentorship Support Group. We have recruited 24 additional Subject-matter Editors based in Asia, Europe, and South America, along with the USA and Canada. Our diverse and vibrant board of editors is ready to take on new challenges and drive the journal into a new era of publishing breakthrough scientific discoveries. As the journal is moving into new and exciting directions, we also aim to preserve and nurture the strengths that have made its reputation. We still aim to publish robust and comprehensive papers that will establish benchmarks from which future research will build. Moreover, we want to broaden the horizon of the journal by breaking the boundaries between ecology and evolution and welcoming papers that challenge current wisdom and paradigms and those that integrate concepts across scales and levels of organization to reveal nature's structure and function, from genes to ecosystems and the biosphere. To solidify its strength while achieving its new goals, Ecological Monographs will publish two new types of articles: Ecological Monographs has a long tradition of publishing seminal papers in quantitative ecology. We created a new article type to celebrate the historical and continued success of the journal in this branch of ecology and to put analytically oriented papers in the spotlight. Method papers will document new analytical developments or compare existing methods while providing guidance and recommendations for best practices and future use. To embrace our origins, we created the article type Monographs, which are essays written by a single author on a given topic. These papers will figure prominently in the journal and will offer a range of perspectives from scholars in ecology and evolution. They will be free form, and can be purely conceptual, but demonstrate outstanding scholarship and critical thinking on old or new debates or on the development of a research discipline or topic. As such, Monographs will complement Concepts & Synthesis papers and reinforce the ambition of the journal to help guide current and future research at the interface of ecology and evolution. Increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion is a priority for the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and Ecological Monographs. It is imperative that we promote better inclusion of underrepresented groups in our scientific community, as this diversity is integral to the advancement of knowledge. At Ecological Monographs we have created a Diversity and Mentorship Support Group that will train early career researchers to be Subject-matter Editors, with a particular focus on recruiting new members from the Global South. Stay tuned and be on the watch for advertisements regarding our recruitment campaign. The success of the journal depends on many volunteers and dedicated staff. The editorial board of Ecological Monographs spends countless hours reading, reviewing, and editing our manuscripts. Their work is what preserves the high quality of contributions to the journal and the author experience provided by the journal. Their workload is ever increasing, and we could not thank them enough for their generosity and commitment. Many thanks to Anne Marie Whelan, Heather Carlo, and Brad Walker who provide constant support for authors and editors. Finally, Associate Editor-in-Chief Brian Inouye is stepping down after many years of hard work and commitment to the success of Ecological Monographs. Brian has been a generous mentor to many editors and a critical component of the most recent development, growth, and accentuated impact of the journal. We are grateful that he agreed to remain on the board as a Subject-matter Editor who can keep advising the leadership team.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.019 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".