Promiscuous words

Table 2 Characteristics of papers retrieved by the search term ‘promiscuity’ or ‘promiscuous’ and ‘polyandry’ and ‘polyandrous’ in 13 journals from 2000 to 31st July 2013

Journal	Journal Impact Factor¹	Papers retrieved by the search term ‘Promiscuity’ or ‘Promiscuous’				Papers retrieved by the search term ‘Polyandry’ or ‘Polyandrous’				% papers retrieved by promiscuous³	Δ cites⁴
		Papers	Most cites in a paper	Mean cites per paper	h-index²	Papers	Most cites in a paper	Mean cites per paper	h-index²
American Naturalist	4.55	9	205	43	7	21	118	24	13	30.0	19
Animal Behaviour	3.07	39	118	15	14	79	663	26	22	33.1	−11
Behavioral Ecology	3.22	21	54	14	9	57	67	16	19	26.9	−2
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology	2.75	40	50	15	15	81	51	18	23	33.1	−3
Biology Letters	3.35	6	35	10	4	18	29	10	8	25.0	0
Current Biology	9.49	13	37	9	5	14	146	32	7	48.1	−23
Ecology Letters	17.95	2	74	37	1	8	137	32	4	20.0	5
Ethology	1.95	11	37	12	5	30	120	16	12	26.8	−4.5
Evolution	4.86	23	103	23	12	65	113	28	28	26.1	−5
J Evolutionary Biology	3.48	17	62	13	9	58	86	21	22	22.7	−8
Molecular Ecology	6.28	20	90	24	13	62	421	31	27	24.4	−7
Nature	38.6	6	142	57	4	7	261	119	7	46.2	−62
Proc Nat Acad Sci USA	9.74	7	106	35	6	10	128	42	8	41.2	−7
Proc Royal Society B	5.68	37	106	39	24	83	128	32	33	30.8	7
Science	31.03	2	122	48	3	6	148	61	6	25.0	−13

(Note, Frontiers in Zoology is not included in the survey because no papers are retrieved by the search terms promiscuity or promiscuous, and only two papers were retrieved by the search terms polyandry or polyandrous).
¹2012 Journal Citation Report®, ISI Web of Knowledge™.
²h-index calculated according to J.E. Hirsch in ISI Web of Knowledge™.
³Calculated as the number of papers retrieved by the search terms promiscuity or promiscuous, divided by the sum of the number of papers retrieved by the search terms promiscuity, promiscuous and polyandry or polyandrous.
⁴The mean cites per paper retrieved by the search terms promiscuity or promiscuous less the mean cites per paper retrieved by the search terms polyandry or polyandrous.

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