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ReviewJournal of phycology2025

What is Fragilaria koensabbei and does it matter what it is called? (Meta)barcoding and the science of taxonomy.

David M Williams

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Review in Journal of phycology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

David M WilliamsThe Natural History Museum, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0584-307X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Commentary is provided on the use of barcoding and metabarcoding in diatom studies and its broader relevance to the principles of taxonomy. The claims that taxonomy, however it is performed, is time-consuming and that it requires extensive expertise, due to a constantly evolving taxonomy, are questioned as good, even useful, criteria by which to judge a science.

Indexed as

ClassificationDiatomsDNA Barcoding, Taxonomicdiatommoleculartaxonomy

Identifiers

PMID40318160
PMCPMC12168096

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Registered trials

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