New! 2006 Impact Factor 3.381

Oikos

Distributed on behalf of Nordic Society OIKOS

Edited by:
Per Lundberg

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 24/116 (Ecology)
Impact Factor: 3.136

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Oikos is a journal issued by the Nordic Ecological Society and is one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in ecology.

Oikos publishes original and innovative research on all aspects of ecology. Emphasis is on theoretical and empirical work aimed at generalization and synthesis across taxa, systems and ecological disciplines. Papers should be well founded in ecological theory and contribute to new developments in ecology by reporting novel theory or critical experimental results. Confirming or extending the established literature is given less priority. Synthesis of new and emerging fields in ecology and beyond is encouraged. Papers of review character should should strive for conceptual unification and being a point of departure for future work rather that restrospective summaries of established fields or topics.

Papers in Brevia, Horizons and Forum sections are given high priority in the publication process.

Oikos is available in HTML or PDF format for subscribers online.
For volumes that pre-date 2000 please visit JSTOR

 

TopNews and Announcements

Two new sections for Oikos
As of 2007, Oikos will be adding two new sections to the journal:

• Horizons - Short essays inviting authors to look ahead, to go beyond the contemporary and mainstream, this section serves as an arena for informed reflections and outlooks within or outside the field of ecology.
• Brevia - offers the possibility to comment on and discuss papers previously published in Oikos. These articles should be brief, succcinct and to the point and should broaden and widen the scope of published ccontributions, or debate controversial findings.

For further details on the structure of the sections available click here or for author guidlelines please click here.

Articles Published Online Ahead of Print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our EarlyView feature before the print edition of this journal is published. To view the abstracts of the latest EarlyView articles please click here.

Free Online Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

TopHighlights

Highly accessed papers
The following three papers were the most accessed articles within Oikos by Online users in 2005. Click on each link to view the Abstracts. If you do not have a subscription to the journal you can purchase single articles by clicking the Buy Now option within the Online platform.

The anarchist's guide to ecological theory. Or, we don't need no stinkin' laws
R. B. O'Hara

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: insights from aquatic systems
Mark O. Gessner, Pablo Inchausti, Lennart Persson, David G. Raffaelli, Paul S. Giller

Ecological laws: what would they be and why would they matter?
Marc Lange

Highly cited papers
The following three papers were the most highly cited articles in 2003 published in Oikos. Click on each link to view the Abstracts. If you do not have a subscription to the journal you can purchase single articles by clicking the Buy Now option within the Online platform.

Arguments for rejecting the sequential Bonferroni in ecological studies  
Moran, MD 

Biodiversity and ecosystem function: the consumer connection  
Duffy, JE 

Variation in trophic shift for stable isotope ratios of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur  
McCutchan, JH; Lewis, WM; Kendall, C; McGrath, CC 

Free Files to Download
The following articles demonstrate some of the topics published in the journal over the last few years. Click on any title to view the paper free of charge. 

Deleting Species From Model Food Webs
C. Quince, P.G. Higgs and A.J. McKane

The community context of species' borders: ecological and evolutionary perspectives
T.J. Case, R.D. Holt, M.A. McPeek and T.H. Keitt

Direct experimental evidence for alternative stable states: a review
A. Schröder, L. Persson and A.M. De Roos

Gap percolation in rainforests
R.V. Solé, F. Bartumeus and J.G.P. Gamarra

Why are young leaves red?
N.J. Dominy, P.W. Lucas, L.W. Ramsden, P. Riba-Hernandez, K.E. Stoner

Links to other relevant sites
Blackwell Ecology - Blackwell Publishing's ecology subject site

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