The Information Science aspect of this publication deals with the information flow on Stromboidea.
Information sources are:
The information in a publication like this cumulates, it grows over time and gets more and more comprehensive. The disadvantage is, that there is no stable version, because there can be changes the next minute.
Statistics can be used to measure several things:
- Growth
- Comprehensivness
- Contributors performance
- Impact
It is much harder to measure qualitative aspects, like
- How good is the information in a publication?
Statistics
2009
This publication contains
- 12 families of Stromboidea (13 with Xenophoridae)
- 146 genera
- 69 original genus descriptions (47,3 %)
- 1209 species names
- 647 species pages (53,5 %)
- 402 original species descriptions (33,3 %)
- 367 Locus typicus (30,4 %)
- 310 Stratum typicum (25,5 %)
- 1323 plates containing
- 3997 specimen
- 989 references
- 63 persons
- 18 institutions
(status: 28. dec. 2009)
2008
This publication contains
- 12 families of Stromboidea
- 137 genera
- 46 original genus descriptions (33,6 %)
- 907 species names
- 362 species pages (39,9 %)
- 167 original species descriptions (18,4 %)
- 147 Locus typicus (16,2 %)
- 110 Stratum typicum (12,1 %)
- 752 plates containing
- 2510 specimen
- 924 references
- 49 persons
- 11 institutions
(status: 28. dec. 2008)
2007
This publication contains
- 11 families of Stromboidea
- 132 genera
- 40 original genus descriptions (30,3 %)
- 786 species names
- 229 species pages (29,1 %)
- 124 original species descriptions (15,8 %)
- 98 Locus typicus (12,5 %)
- 76 Stratum typicum (9,7 %)
- 258 plates containing
- 1071 specimen
- 892 references
- 35 persons
- 2 institutions
(status: 30. dec. 2007)
2006
- 386 references (status 20. dec. 2006)
