Scientific awards can shape scientific careers, helping to secure jobs and grants, but can
also contribute to the lack of diversity at senior levels and in the elite networks of scientists …

Awards can propel academic careers. They also reflect the culture and values of the
scientific community. But, do awards incentivise greater transparency, diversity, and …

Software development in ecology and evolution, and perhaps across other fields as well, is
at an important junction. Open software underpins most research today, increasing …

Author‐level metrics are a widely used measure of scientific success. The h‐index and its
variants measure publication output (number of publications) and research impact (number …

To the Editor—The current, authorshipbased system for recognizing individual contributions
to science only patchily recognizes the contributions of the primary data collection that …

Access to resources—whether human, financial, or social—is a key indicator of research
output and, in turn, academic career progression. However, resources are not equally …

Many funding agencies rely on grant proposal peer review to allocate scientific funding, ie,
researchers compete for funding by submitting proposals that are reviewed and ranked by …

The integrity and progress of any academic field depends on reliable measures for judging
the merit of its publications and their authors. In ecology, as in other disciplines, analysis and …

Research is a highly competitive profession where evaluation plays a central role; journals
are ranked and individuals are evaluated based on their publication number, the number of …

In an ideal world, funding agencies could identify the best scientists and projects and
provide them with the resources to undertake these projects. Most scientists would agree …