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ABOUT TROPICAL CONSERVATION SCIENCE

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Tropical Conservation Science — TCS
ISSN 1940-0829
(tropicalconservationscience.org)

Tropical Conservation Science

Tropical Conservation Science is a peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes original research papers and state-of-the-art reviews of broad interest to the field of conservation of tropical forests and of other tropical ecosystems. Tropical Conservation Science publishes papers in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Chinese. Executive editor
    Alejandro Estrada Ph.D
    Estación de Biología Tropical Los Tuxtlas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Associate editors
    Dr. Júlio César Bicca-Marques
    Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Dr. Sarah Boyle
    Rhodes College, USA

    Mr. William Bridges
    Director (Ret.), Pulliam School of Journalism, Franklin College, USA

    Dr. Adriano Garcia Chiarello
    Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Dr. Ben Collen
    Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London

    Dr. Richard Corlett
    National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Dr. Aparajita Datta
    Nature Conservation Foundation, India

    Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo
    Stanford University, USA

    Dr. Christine Dranzoa
    Makerere University, Uganda

    Dr. Pierre-Michel Forget
    Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France

    Dr. Paul Garber
    University of Illinois-Urbana, USA

    Dr. Holly Gibbs
    Stanford University, USA

    Dr. Zhu Hua
    Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    Dr. Chen Jin
    Director, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    Dr. Lian Pin Koh
    Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH-Zürich), Switzerland

    Dr. Martin Kowaleski
    Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Argentina

    Dr. Joanna Lambert
    University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

    Dr. William F. Laurance
    The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama / USA

    Dr. Salvador Mandujano
    Instituto de Ecologia, A. C., Mexico

    Dr. Andrew Marshall
    University of York, UK

    Dr. John Bosco Nizeyi
    Makerere University, Uganda

    Patrick Omeja
    Makerere University, Uganda

    Dr. N. Parthasarathy
    Pondicherry University, India

    Dr. Dave Pearson
    Arizona State University, USA

    Dr. Pablo Riba
    Proyecto Carey, Costa Rica

    Dr. Innocent Rwego
    Makerere University, Uganda

    Dr. Cagan Sekercioglu
    Stanford University, USA

    Dr. Jatna Supriatna
    Director, Conservation International, Indonesia

    Dr. Robert Sussman
    Washington University, USA

    Dr. Sarie Van Belle
    University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

    Dr. Kevina Vulinec
    Delawere State University, USA
Co-founders
    Rhett Butler
    mongabay.com

    Alejandro Estrada Ph.D
    Estación de Biología Tropical Los Tuxtlas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Benefit of Open Access

The chief benefit of publishing in an open access format is that papers are freely accessible to the public, allowing wide dissemination of research.

This point was confirmed by Gunther Eysenbach of the University of Toronto in a 2006 paper published in PLoS Biology, an open access journal. Analyzing citations in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from June-December 2004, Eysenbach found "open access articles are more immediately recognized and cited by peers than non-open access articles published in the same journal." He suggested that "open access is likely to benefit science by accelerating dissemination and uptake of research findings." [Eysenbach G (2006) Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biol 4(5): e157 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157]


Academic Indexing

TCS is presently included in the following indexing agencies Currently, TCS is under evaluation (2008-2010) in:
Tropical Conservation Science is an open-access e-journal that publishes research relating to conservation of tropical forests and other tropical ecosystems.

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