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

[Alina Szmant]

John:

Your data support that human overpopulation also affects the publication of scientific research.



Dr. Alina M. Szmant,  CEO
CISME Instruments LLC



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From: John Ware via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Date: 9/29/21 1:17 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Subject: [Coral-List] Coral-reef science or coral-reef engineering.

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:

//

/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)./

//

/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./

//

/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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John R. Ware PhD
SeaServices LLC
627 N Rockingham Ave.
Nixa MO 65714
417 374 7076

jware at erols.com
SeaServices.org

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