[Coral-List] Coral-reef science or coral-reef engineering.

[John Ware]

Dear List:

As an extension to the discussion on the apparent loss of references to 
older papers, the following is an extract from a short note I provided 
to Reef Encounter ~2 yrs ago in which I compared the growth of journal  
Coral Reefs over a period of ~30 yrs:

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/For the years 1988 and 1989 the average number of papers per issue 
(four issues per year) was 6.00, the average number of authors per paper 
was 2.15 and the percent of papers with 5 or more authors was 2.08 (one 
paper of the 48 total papers)./

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/In 2019, the average number of papers per issue was 22.5, the average 
number of authors per paper was 4.88 and the percentage of papers with 5 
or more authors was 48.9./

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/The average number of authors per year for 1988/89 was 51.5 while for 
2018 there were a total of 439 authors.Making the questionable 
assumptions that there were few duplicate authors in either case and 
that the number of authors contributing to Coral Reefs is somehow 
representative of the state of coral-reef science as a whole, then there 
is some evidence that there are now more than 8 times as many coral-reef 
scientists (or people related to coral-reef science) than just 30 years 
ago!/

The data seem to support the contention that I made many years ago the: 
*While global warming is bad for coral reefs, it appears to be good for 
coral-reef scientists.*

John

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