ArticleRoyal Society open science2021
Are publications on zoological taxonomy under attack?
Article in Royal Society open science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed.
- The flounder effect: disparities in taxonomic and ecological study intensity across extant and fossil marine organisms hamper conservation.npj biodiversity · 2026Review
- Evaluation and Comparison of the Academic Quality of Open-Access Mega Journals and Authoritative Journals: Disruptive Innovation Evaluation.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- ChatGPT and Corporations of Mega-journals Jeopardize the Norms That Underpin Academic Publishing.Archives of Iranian medicine · 2024Article
- Research publications of Australia's natural history museums, 1981-2020: Enduring relevance in a changing world.PloS one · 2023Article
- Ten years and a million links: building a global taxonomic library connecting persistent identifiers for names, publications and people.Biodiversity data journal · 2023Article
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6 authors.
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Abstract
Taxonomy is essential to biological sciences and the priority field in face of the biodiversity crisis. The industry of scientific publications has made extensive promotion and display of bibliometric indexes, resulting in side effects such as the Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF) mania. Inadequacies of the widely used indexes to assess taxonomic publications are among the impediments for the progress of this field. Based on an unusually high proportion of self-citations, the mega-journal
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