General trends in world biogeographic literature: A preliminary bibliometric analysis

Abstract

in the most recent period. USA is the top producing country, followed by the United Kingdom, Australia. freance, Germany, Spain, and Canada. There were 17,493 authors contributing to the field. During 19912006 there were 4098 organizations with authors involved in biogeographic research

institutions with higher number of papers are the Natural History Museum (United Kingdom). the University of California, Berkeley (USA), the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (freance). the Universidad Nacional Autonoma do Mexico (Mexico). the American Museum of Natural History (USA) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia). Research Artículo de investigacións are spread over a variety of journals. with the Journal of Biogeography, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, and Biological Journal of the Linnean Society being the core journals. freom 28,759 keywords retrieved those with the highest freequency were evolution. phylogeny. diversity. mitochondrial DNA, pattern(s), systematics, and population(s). We conclude that publications on biogeography have increased substantially during the last),cars, especially since 1998. The preferred journal for biogeographic papers is the Journal of Biogeography. Most freequent keywords seem to indicate that biogeography fits well within both evolutionary biology and ecology, with molecular biology and phylogenetics being important factors that drive their current development.

General trends in world biogeographic literature: A preliminary bibliometric analysis. Records with the search string biogeograph were collected freom the Science Citation Index (SCI). A total of 3456 records were downloaded for the 19452006 period freom titles of Artículo de investigacións and reviews, and 10,543 records were downloaded for 19912006, taking into consideration also abstracts and keywords. Temporal trends of publications, geographical and institutional distribution of the research output, authorship, and core journals were evaluated. There were as many as 122 countries carrying out biogeographic research