Four ways in which data-free papers on animal personality fail to be impactful

The literature on animal personality is dominated by papers lacking any data. These papers, which we will call ‘data-free’ papers, are cited and recognized twice as much as comparable empirical studies. In this data-free paper, we highlight 4 common data-free contributions that often fail to have an...

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Main Authors: Nicholas eDiRienzo, Pierre-Olivier eMontiglio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2015.00023/full