%0 Journal Article
%T Subject and authorship of records related to the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) in BINABITROP, a comprehensive database about Costa Rican biology
%A Juli¨¢n Monge-N¨¢jera
%A Vanessa Nielsen-Mu£¿oz
%A Ana Beatriz Azofeifa-Mora
%J Revista de Biolog¨ªa Tropical
%D 2013
%I Universidad de Costa Rica
%X BINABITROP is a bibliographical database of more than 38 000 records about the ecosystems and organisms of Costa Rica. In contrast with commercial databases, such as Web of Knowledge and Scopus, which exclude most of the scientific journals published in tropical countries, BINABITROP is a comprehensive record of knowledge on the tropical ecosystems and organisms of Costa Rica. We analyzed its contents in three sites (La Selva, Palo Verde and Las Cruces) and recorded scientific field, taxonomic group and authorship. We found that most records dealt with ecology and systematics, and that most authors published only one article in the study period (1963-2011). Most research was published in four journals: Biotropica, Revista de Biolog¨ªa Tropical/ International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation, Zootaxa and Brenesia. This may be the first study of a such a comprehensive database for any case of tropical biology literature. BINABITROP es una base de datos bibliogr¨¢fica con m¨¢s de 38 000 registros sobre los ecosistemas y organismos de Costa Rica. En contraste con bases de datos comerciales como Web of Knowledge y Scopus, que excluyen a la mayor¨ªa de las revistas cient¨ªficas publicadas en los pa¨ªses tropicales, BINABITROP registra casi por completo la literatura biol¨®gica sobre Costa Rica. Analizamos los registros de La Selva, Palo Verde y Las Cruces. Hallamos que la mayor¨ªa de los registros corresponden a estudios sobre ecolog¨ªa y sistem¨¢tica; que la mayor¨ªa de los autores s¨®lo registraron un art¨ªculo en el per¨ªodo de estudio (1963-2011) y que la mayor¨ªa de la investigaci¨®n formalmente publicada apareci¨® en cuatro revistas: Biotropica, Revista de Biolog¨ªa Tropical/International Journal of Tropical Biology, Zootaxa y Brenesia. Este parece ser el primer estudio de una base de datos integral sobre literatura de biolog¨ªa tropical.
%K investigaci¨®n tropical de campo
%K publicaciones
%K art¨ªculos por investigador
%K temas de estudio
%K tropical field research
%K publications
%K articles per researcher
%K study subjects
%U http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442013000300001