Vittori Miloš, Dominko Miha
Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 111, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia University of Ljubljana Ljubljana Slovenia.
Institute for Economic Research, Kardeljeva ploščad 17, 1109 Ljubljana, Slovenia Institute for Economic Research Ljubljana Slovenia.
Zookeys. 2022 May 18;1101:13-34. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1101.81016. eCollection 2022.
Terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea) are crustaceans that thrive in terrestrial environments. This study provides an overview of the major topics in terrestrial isopod research during the last 70 years in order to provide an example of publication practices in invertebrate zoology and to examine how basic research in this area is transferred to its applications. Co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling based on citation data from the Web of Science Core Collection was used. Findings show that while research on terrestrial isopods expanded in applicative research prioritised by research policies, basic research continues to flourish. The most productive countries in the field include the major developed economies and several smaller nations. In the smaller countries, as well as in France and Italy, the bulk of woodlouse research is performed at a few institutions with traditions in this field. Some of the most influential works have been published in periodicals or monographs that are not indexed in Web of Science or Scopus and lack impact factors. Conference proceedings represent some of the most influential publications in the field. Our findings indicate that smaller and developing economies make significant contributions in invertebrate zoology if their research organisations can achieve continuity of research on a topic. Another conclusion is that journal metrics may be a misleading descriptor of the impact of studies and researchers in this field. Ultimately, these results identify several examples of how basic research in invertebrate zoology leads to applications with considerable socio-economic impact.
陆生等足类动物（潮虫亚目）是在陆地环境中繁衍生息的甲壳类动物。本研究概述了过去70年陆生等足类动物研究的主要课题，以便提供无脊椎动物学出版实践的一个范例，并审视该领域的基础研究是如何转化为实际应用的。研究使用了基于科学网核心合集引用数据的共被引分析和文献耦合分析。研究结果表明，虽然陆生等足类动物的研究在研究政策优先考虑的应用研究方面有所扩展，但基础研究仍在蓬勃发展。该领域产出最多的国家包括主要的发达经济体和几个较小的国家。在较小的国家以及法国和意大利，大部分潮虫研究是在该领域有传统的少数机构进行的。一些最具影响力的著作发表在未被科学网或Scopus索引且缺乏影响因子的期刊或专著上。会议论文集是该领域一些最具影响力的出版物。我们的研究结果表明，如果较小的经济体和发展中经济体的研究机构能够在某个课题上实现研究的连续性，它们就能在无脊椎动物学领域做出重大贡献。另一个结论是期刊指标可能会对该领域研究和研究人员的影响力产生误导性描述。最终，这些结果列举了无脊椎动物学基础研究如何产生具有相当大社会经济影响的应用的几个例子。
