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Information Science

The Information Science aspect of this publication deals with the information flow on Stromboidea.

Information sources are:

• Nature
• Publications
• Collections
• People

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

2012

This publication contains

• 13 families of Stromboidea
• 155 genera
  • 96 original genus descriptions (61,5 %)
• 1777 species names
  • 1386 species pages (78,0 %)
  • 900 original species descriptions (50,6 %)
  • 864 Locus typicus (48,6 %)
  • 756 Stratum typicum (42,5 %)
• 3602 plates containing
• 10077 figures
• 1194 references
• 89 persons
• 22 institutions

(Status: 30.12.2012)

Statistics of former years