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ReviewRoyal Society open science2017

Bringing ecology blogging into the scientific fold: measuring reach and impact of science community blogs.

Manu E Saunders, Meghan A Duffy, Stephen B Heard, Margaret Kosmala, Simon R Leather, Terrence P McGlynn, Jeff Ollerton, Amy L Parachnowitsch

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Review in Royal Society open science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Manu E SaundersUNE Business School/School of Environmental and Rural Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales 2351, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0645-8277
Meghan A DuffyDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Stephen B HeardDepartment of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, CanadaE3B 5A3.
Margaret KosmalaDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Simon R LeatherCrop and Environment Sciences, Harper Adams University, Edgmond, Newport TF10 8NB, UK.
Terrence P McGlynnDepartment of Biology, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747, USA.
Jeff OllertonFaculty of Arts, Science and Technology, University of Northampton, Avenue Campus, Northampton NN2 6JD, UK.
Amy L ParachnowitschDepartment of Plant Ecology and Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, Uppsala 75236, Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The popularity of science blogging has increased in recent years, but the number of academic scientists who maintain regular blogs is limited. The role and impact of science communication blogs aimed at general audiences is often discussed, but the value of science community blogs aimed at the academic community has largely been overlooked. Here, we focus on our own experiences as bloggers to argue that science community blogs are valuable to the academic community. We use data from our own blogs (

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bloggingcommunicationimpactscience community

Identifiers

PMID29134093
PMCPMC5666276

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