Earth orbiting technologies for understanding global change

Harris, Leonard A.; Johnston, Gordon I.; Hudson, W. R.; Couch, L. M.

doi:10.1016/0094-5765(90)90034-i

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“…Drivers of change to a discipline can come from within. Change in a discipline can occur because of new and emerging paradigms (Laakkonen and Laurila 2007), advances in methodology or technology (Harris et al 1990;Schreiber et al 2004), the personal and professional views of those working within a discipline especially influential personalities (Saxena et al 2006;Andersen 2008;Nabout et al 2010), and development of scope and/or diversity of subject matter within the discipline (Wu 2007). The growth of a particular discipline, or an aspect of it, may affect what information is published and when (Debus 2009).…”

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From little things, big things grow; trends and fads in 110 years of Australian ornithology

2013

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Publishing histories can reveal changes in ornithological effort, focus or direction through time. This study presents a bibliometric content analysis of Emu (1901-2011) which revealed 115 trends (long-term changes in publication over time) and 18 fads (temporary increases in publication activity) from the classification of 9,039 articles using 128 codes organised into eight categories (author gender, author affiliation, article type, subject, main focus, main method, geographical scale and geographical location). Across 110 years, private authorship declined, while publications involving universities and multiple institutions increased; from 1960, female authorship increased. Over time, question-driven studies and incidental observations increased and decreased in frequency, respectively. Single species and 'taxonomic group' subjects increased while studies of birds at specific places decreased. The focus of articles shifted from species distribution and activities of the host organisation to breeding, foraging and other biological/ecological topics. Site-and Australian-continental-scales slightly decreased over time; non-Australian studies increased from the 1970s. A wide variety of fads occurred (e.g. articles on bird distribution, 1942-1951, and using museum specimens, 1906-1913) though the occurrence of fads decreased over time. Changes over time are correlated with technological, theoretical, social and institutional changes, and suggest ornithological priorities, like those of other scientific disciplines, are temporally labile.

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