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
2015
2014
This publication contains
- 13 families of Stromboidea
- xxx genera
- x original genus descriptions (x %)
- x species names
- x species pages (x %)
- 991 original species descriptions (x %)
- 940 Locus typicus (x %)
- 815 Stratum typicum (x %)
- 4758 plates containing
- 14198 figures
- 1205 references
- 131 persons
- 27 institutions
(Status: 31.12.2014)
- The page had 1.400.000 visits since 1/2007, including search engine robots. Excluding them results in 720.000 visits.
2013
This publication contains
- 13 families of Stromboidea
- 158 genera
- 98 original genus descriptions (62,0 %)
- 1755 species names
- 1418 species pages (80,8 %)
- 936 original species descriptions (53,3 %)
- 890 Locus typicus (50,7 %)
- 778 Stratum typicum (44,3 %)
- 4034 plates containing
- 11396 figures
- 1198 references
- 109 persons
- 23 institutions
(Status: 29.12.2013)
- The page had 1.100.000 visits since 1/2007, including search engine robots. Excluding them results in 600.000 visits.
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
To describe objects, a terminologies are needed: