Title: Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii

Title: Zoo Biology

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? Anderson, U.S., Kelling, A.S. and Maple, T.L. (2008), Twenty-five years of Zoo Biology: A publication analysis. Zoo Biology, 27 (6), 444-457.

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Abstract: To expand on earlier publication analyses of the journal Zoo Biology, information from 991 articles published within the journal’s first 25 years was compiled and evaluated. Most articles were applied, descriptive accounts that included inferential statistics and/or biological analyses. In addition, most articles focused on captive animals and concentrated on the behavior and reproduction of mammals, with particular emphasis on primates. With respect to authors, the majority of first authors were affiliated with zoos or universities within the United States and collaborated with co-authors at different institutions. Nearly two-fifths of articles acknowledged receiving external funding and external funding increased over they cars, however, collaboration did not significantly change receipt of external funding. In addition, first authors with zoo affiliations published more descriptive, applied science articles and acknowledged receipt of external funding significantly less often than first authors with University affiliations. Publication latency was comparable to other scientific journals and increased significantly over the 25-year publication period. Longitudinal trends indicated that experimental, applied science, diet and nutrition, and collaborative articles also increased significantly, whereas descriptive, basic science, behavior, and population biology articles decreased significantly. By describing historical trends in zoo research through an analysis of papers published in Zoo Biology, this article may help to bridge gaps and identify new opportunities. Zoo Biol 27:444-457, 2008. (C) 2008 Wiley-Liss. Inc.

Keywords: American Zoos, Analyses, Analysis, Animals, Aquariums, Authors, Authorship, Behavior, Behavioral-Research, Bibliometrics, Biological, Biology, Bridge, Change, Changing Roles, Citations, Co-Authors, Collaboration, Conservation, Diet, Experimental, First, Funding, Information, Institutions, Journal, Journals, Latency, Majority, Mammals, Nutrition, Papers, Population, Primates, Publication, Reproduction, Research, Respect, Science, Scientific Communication, Scientific Journals, Statistics, Trends, United States, Universities, University, Zoo, Zoological Park

? Goulart, V.D., Azevedo, P.G., van de Schepop, J.A., Teixeira, C.P., Barcante, L., Azevedo, C.S. and Young, R.J. (2009), GAPs in the study of zoo and wild animal welfare. Zoo Biology, 28 (6), 561-573.

Full Text: 2009\Zoo Bio28, 561.pdf

Abstract: To investigate the science of animal welfare for zoo and wild animals in the period from 1966 to 2007, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of abstracts downloaded from The Web of Science (c) database using the keyword combination “Animal welfare, Zoo* and wild” in the topic field. In total wedownloaded 1,125 abstracts, which were classified into the following categories: year of publication environment of the study (e.g., zoo) or theoretical; area of knowledge (e.g., conservation ill Situ); number of experimental animals used; species; addresses of authors: taxonomic classification; publication language; journal name; number of citations received. Since 1990, there has been a rapid increase in the number of articles published in this area of animal welfare. One worrying result was that published articles were predominately of a theoretical nature (58.65%, N = 563). Most of the articles were published by authors either in Europe (47.43%, N = 480) or North America (37.65%, N = 381) and written in English (87.71%, N = 971). The majority of experimental studies were conducted with mammals (75.92%, N = 391), and had small sample sizes (N = 7 for zoo-based Studies). In terms of impact factor (IF), the journals in this Study had a median factor equivalent to that for the area of biological sciences (median IF = 1.013). Little knowledge cross-over from farm animal welfare was found (only four articles) in this study. In Conclusion, Zoo and wild animal welfare as a science may benefit from it greater interaction with farm animal welfare. Zoo Biol 28:561-573, 2009. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Keywords: Animal Well-Being, Articles, Behavior, Bibliometric, Bibliometric Analysis, Citations, Classification, GAP Analysis, Impact, Impact Factor, Interaction, Journals, Protected Areas, Publication, Science-Based Assessment, Species, Topic, Web of Science, Wild Animal, Zoo Animal