Journal info (provided by editor)

% accepted last year
20% accepted
% immediately rejected last year
40% imm. rejected
Articles published last year
127 articles
Manuscripts received last year
n/a
Open access status
optional
Manuscript handling fee
none

Impact factors (provided by editor)

Two-year impact factor
n/a
Five-year impact factor
5.41

Aims and Scope

ECOGRAPHY publishes papers focused on broad spatial and temporal patterns, particularly studies of population and community ecology, macroecology, biogeography, and ecological conservation. Studies in ecological genetics and historical ecology are welcomed in the context of explaining contemporary ecological patterns. Manuscripts are expected to address general principles in ecology, though they may do so using a specific model system if this frames the problem relative to a generalised ecological issue.

Papers generally are expected to be based on concise hypotheses or to relate to concise theoretical concepts based on sound natural history. Purely descriptive papers are considered only if breaking new ground and/or describing patterns seldom explored. Manuscripts merely confirming or

Latest review

First review round: 12.7 weeks. Overall rating: 2 (moderate). Outcome: Rejected.

Motivation:
This was an outright reject even though the concerns seemed minor and easily addressed. One reviewer just sounded confused, with queries for clarification, and the other suggested minor corrections and offered a dense proof of a complex supplementary equation that wasn't needed. The handling editor ignored the proof, said the minor issues "could be accounted for in a revised version", and rejected the paper based on a concern about a conceptual model used to explain the pattern. The math, data, and results weren't challenged.
2.9
Good process