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Publishing trends and productivity in insect taxonomy from 1946 through 2012 based on an analysis of the Zoological Record for four species-rich families

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Liu, Yang, Dietrich, Christopher H., Braxton, Susan M., Wang, Yang (2019): Publishing trends and productivity in insect taxonomy from 1946 through 2012 based on an analysis of the Zoological Record for four species-rich families. European Journal of Taxonomy 504: 1-24, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.504

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