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Tropical Conservation Science — TCS
ISSN 1940-0829
(tropicalconservationscience.org)
Tropical Conservation Science
Tropical Conservation Science was acquired by SAGE Publications in August 2016.
For submission instructions please see the new TCS web site at SAGE.
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. As of September 2012, Tropical Conservation Science publishes papers only in English.
Executive editor
Alejandro Estrada Ph.D
Estación de Biología Tropical Los Tuxtlas, Instituto de Biología, 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
Dr. Adriano Garcia Chiarello
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Ben Collen
Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London
Dr. Richard Corlett
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Dr. Aparajita Datta
Nature Conservation Foundation, India
Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo
Stanford University, USA
Dr. Christine Dranzoa
Makerere University, Uganda
Dr. Juan Manuel Dupuy
Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan, A.C., Mexico
Dr. Pierre-Michel Forget
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
Dr. Paul Garber
University of Illinois-Urbana, USA
Dr. Holly Gibbs
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Dr. Zhu Hua
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens, China
Dr. Chen Jin
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens, China
Dr. Lian Pin Koh
University of Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Martin Kowaleski
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Argentina
Dr. Joanna Lambert
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Dr. William F. Laurance
James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Dr. Salvador Mandujano
Instituto de Ecologia, A. C., Mexico
Dr. Andrew Marshall
University of York, UK
Dr. Salvador Montiel
CINVESTAV-Mérida, Mexico
Dr. John Bosco Nizey
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. Kathryn Stoner
Texas A & M, USA
Dr. Jatna Supriatna
University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Dr. Robert Sussman
Washington University, USA
Dr. Sarie Van Belle
University of Texas-Austin, USA
Dr. Kevina Vulinec
Delaware State University, USA
Dr. Fernanda Michalski
Universidade Federal do Amapa, Brazil
Dr. Darren Norris
Universidade Federal do Amapa, Brazil
Dr. Eduardo García Frapolli
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dr. Nicolas Urbina
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
Dr. Inza Kone
L'Université Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire
Dr Kenneth Clarke
University of Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Weston Testo
University of Vermont, USA
Copy editor
Ms. Carol Van Strum
Tropical Conservation Science
Technical director
Rhett Butler
mongabay.com
Director
Rhett Butler
mongabay.com
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
SCOPUS, Thomson-Reuters' Biology & Environmental Sciences, JCR (Journal Citation Reports), SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded), and Current Contents/Agriculture.
TCS is also in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), CAB Abstracts, EBSCO Publishing databases, Google Scholar, Open Access Net of Germany, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, and Stanford University e-journal database.