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| Title |
The taxonomist - an endangered race. A practical proposal for its survival
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Zoology, October 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-9994-8-25 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Heike Wägele, Annette Klussmann-Kolb, Michael Kuhlmann, Gerhard Haszprunar, David Lindberg, André Koch, J Wolfgang Wägele |
| Abstract |
Taxonomy or biological systematics is the basic scientific discipline of biology, postulating hypotheses of identity and relationships, on which all other natural sciences dealing with organisms relies. However, the scientific contributions of taxonomists have been largely neglected when using species names in scientific publications by not citing the authority on which they are based. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |
| Germany | 1 | 7% |
| Japan | 1 | 7% |
| Australia | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 9 | 64% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 71% |
| Scientists | 4 | 29% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 422 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 16 | 4% |
| United States | 9 | 2% |
| Germany | 6 | 1% |
| Portugal | 4 | <1% |
| Spain | 4 | <1% |
| France | 3 | <1% |
| Mexico | 2 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 10 | 2% |
| Unknown | 366 | 87% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 103 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 71 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 46 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 39 | 9% |
| Professor | 31 | 7% |
| Other | 93 | 22% |
| Unknown | 39 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 291 | 69% |
| Environmental Science | 32 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 21 | 5% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 15 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 4 | <1% |
| Other | 12 | 3% |
| Unknown | 47 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 July 2023.
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#1,637,241
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Zoology
#97
of 695 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,715
of 152,378 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Zoology
#2
of 8 outputs
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