The Evidence Champions: Journals

Introduction

Numerous conservation-focused journals are requesting that authors outline how they have placed the literature in context (e.g. by searching Conservation Evidence) by incorporating this in the submission process or in instructions to authors. Asking authors who have tested interventions to explain how they have placed their paper in context will help ensure conservation science reduces the perils of cherry picking scientific evidence and will improve the design of future work. It will not provide a complete remedy to bias in conservation articles. Ideally, the impact of this measure will grow as the evidence base grows, so that we can have the extended vision that comes from standing on the shoulders of giants rather than the limited vision from standing on their toes. Read the manuscript behind this initiative authored by 40 journal editors at Conservation Biology

Below are listed the journals requesting the information:

  1. Acta Herpetologica
  2. Animal Conservation (tbc)
  3. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  4. Avian Conservation and Ecology
  5. Avocetta - Journal of Ornithology
  6. Biodiversity Science (tbc)
  7. Biodiversity and Conservation
  8. Biotropica (tbc)
  9. Bird Conservation International
  10. Conservation Biology (in progress 2024)
  11. Conservation Evidence
  12. Conservation Physiology (in progress 2024)
  13. Conservation Science and Practice
  14. Conservation Land Management
  15. Ecological Solutions and Evidence (in progress 2024)
  16. Ecology and Evolution (in progress 2024)
  17. Ecosystems and People
  18. Emu - Austral Ornithology
  19. Endangered Species Research
  20. European Journal of Wildlife Research
  21. Global Ecology and Conservation (in progress 2024)
  22. Ibis
  23. Journal of Applied Ecology
  24. Journal of Insect Conservation
  25. Journal for Nature Conservation (tbc)
  26. Journal of Threatened Taxa
  27. Mires and Peat
  28. Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research (tbc)
  29. Oryx
  30. Pacific Conservation Biology
  31. Restoration Ecology (in progress 2024) 
  32. Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia- Research in Ornithology
  33. Therya (tbc)
  34. Taiwan Journal of Biodiversity (tbc)
  35. Tropical Conservation Science
  36. Wildfowl

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