Disproportional Representation of Primates in the Ecological Literature

We address the question why papers dealing with the ecology of primates are so sparsely represented in the general ecological literature. A literature analyses based on entries in Web of Science and PrimateLit reveals that despite a large number of papers published on primates in general and on the ecology of primates, only a very small fraction of these papers is published in high-ranking international ecological journals. We discuss a number of potential reasons for the disproportion and highlight the problems associated with experimental research on wild primates and constraints on sample size as major issues.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2013-12-10

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0080763PMID 24339882PMCID 3858218
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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