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Impediments to taxonomy and users of taxonomy: accessibility and impact evaluation
Author(s) -
Ebach Malte C.,
Valdecasas Antonio G.,
Wheeler Quentin D.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
cladistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.323
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1096-0031
pISSN - 0748-3007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00348.x
Subject(s) - taxonomy (biology) , citation , biology , dna barcoding , data science , library science , ecology , computer science
There has been much discussion of the “taxonomic impediment”. This phrase confuses two kinds of impediment: an impediment to end users imposed by lack of reliable information; and impediments to taxonomy itself, which vary from insufficient funding to low citation rates of taxonomic monographs. In order to resolve both these types of impediment, taxonomy needs to be revitalized through funding and training taxonomists, as well as investing in taxonomic revisions and monographs rather than technological surrogates such as DNA barcoding.
© The Willi Hennig Society 2011.