Co-authorship networks (and other contextual factors) behind the growth of taxonomy of South American Ephemeroptera: a scientometric approach

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Dominguez, Eduardo; Dos Santos, Daniel Andrés
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2014
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Science carried out in South America has experienced a major rise in the levels of productivity and impact during the last decade. The continuity of this process depends upon strong policy decisions of personnel training and of increasing investments. We study the effects of a new regional paradigm, specifically, an increasing international visibility through knowledge support, using the particular case of taxonomy of an ancient group of insects (Ephemeroptera) in South America. We tracked the number of new species described in scholarly papers along a period of two centuries. We have also mined patterns of connections from the respective co-authorship network. A quantitative framework to analyze historical sequences of scientific output is also proposed. Our results point out three stages of taxonomic development: (i) a pioneering stage (1800’s–1970’s) where foreign authors coming from Europe and North America account for almost the totality of described species, (ii) a transitional stage (1980’s–1990’s) where new species are described by both foreign and regional authors, and (iii) an autonomous stage (1999–present) where the bulk of scientific output is performed by regional authors. Remarkably, the transitional stage coincides with the advent of democracy in the region. We hypothesize that conjunction of funding and interactions between researchers act synergistically to foster an autochthonous taxonomy in South America.
Fil: Dominguez, Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Tucuman. Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo; Argentina
Fil: Dos Santos, Daniel Andrés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Tucuman. Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo; Argentina
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Co-authorship networks (and other contextual factors) behind the growth of taxonomy of South American Ephemeroptera: a scientometric approach
title Co-authorship networks (and other contextual factors) behind the growth of taxonomy of South American Ephemeroptera: a scientometric approach
spellingShingle Co-authorship networks (and other contextual factors) behind the growth of taxonomy of South American Ephemeroptera: a scientometric approach
Dominguez, Eduardo
Network Analysis
Research And Development
Systematics
Funding
title_short Co-authorship networks (and other contextual factors) behind the growth of taxonomy of South American Ephemeroptera: a scientometric approach
title_full Co-authorship networks (and other contextual factors) behind the growth of taxonomy of South American Ephemeroptera: a scientometric approach
title_fullStr Co-authorship networks (and other contextual factors) behind the growth of taxonomy of South American Ephemeroptera: a scientometric approach
title_full_unstemmed Co-authorship networks (and other contextual factors) behind the growth of taxonomy of South American Ephemeroptera: a scientometric approach
title_sort Co-authorship networks (and other contextual factors) behind the growth of taxonomy of South American Ephemeroptera: a scientometric approach
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Dominguez, Eduardo
Dos Santos, Daniel Andrés
author Dominguez, Eduardo
author_facet Dominguez, Eduardo
Dos Santos, Daniel Andrés
author_role author
author2 Dos Santos, Daniel Andrés
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Network Analysis
Research And Development
Systematics
Funding
topic Network Analysis
Research And Development
Systematics
Funding
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Science carried out in South America has experienced a major rise in the levels of productivity and impact during the last decade. The continuity of this process depends upon strong policy decisions of personnel training and of increasing investments. We study the effects of a new regional paradigm, specifically, an increasing international visibility through knowledge support, using the particular case of taxonomy of an ancient group of insects (Ephemeroptera) in South America. We tracked the number of new species described in scholarly papers along a period of two centuries. We have also mined patterns of connections from the respective co-authorship network. A quantitative framework to analyze historical sequences of scientific output is also proposed. Our results point out three stages of taxonomic development: (i) a pioneering stage (1800’s–1970’s) where foreign authors coming from Europe and North America account for almost the totality of described species, (ii) a transitional stage (1980’s–1990’s) where new species are described by both foreign and regional authors, and (iii) an autonomous stage (1999–present) where the bulk of scientific output is performed by regional authors. Remarkably, the transitional stage coincides with the advent of democracy in the region. We hypothesize that conjunction of funding and interactions between researchers act synergistically to foster an autochthonous taxonomy in South America.
Fil: Dominguez, Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Tucuman. Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo; Argentina
Fil: Dos Santos, Daniel Andrés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Tucuman. Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo; Argentina
description Science carried out in South America has experienced a major rise in the levels of productivity and impact during the last decade. The continuity of this process depends upon strong policy decisions of personnel training and of increasing investments. We study the effects of a new regional paradigm, specifically, an increasing international visibility through knowledge support, using the particular case of taxonomy of an ancient group of insects (Ephemeroptera) in South America. We tracked the number of new species described in scholarly papers along a period of two centuries. We have also mined patterns of connections from the respective co-authorship network. A quantitative framework to analyze historical sequences of scientific output is also proposed. Our results point out three stages of taxonomic development: (i) a pioneering stage (1800’s–1970’s) where foreign authors coming from Europe and North America account for almost the totality of described species, (ii) a transitional stage (1980’s–1990’s) where new species are described by both foreign and regional authors, and (iii) an autonomous stage (1999–present) where the bulk of scientific output is performed by regional authors. Remarkably, the transitional stage coincides with the advent of democracy in the region. We hypothesize that conjunction of funding and interactions between researchers act synergistically to foster an autochthonous taxonomy in South America.
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