Thirty-one Years of Systematic Zoology
Systematic BiologyPublished 1 December 1983
Duncan Hull
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The number and percentage of pages devoted to various topics in Systematic Zoology are traced from the inception of the journal to the present to see what effects such changes have had on the sorts of papers published.
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Thirty-one Years of Systematic Zoology Get access Systematic Biology, Volume 32, Issue 4, December 1983, Pages 315–342, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/32.4.315 Published: 01 December 1983 Article history Received: 05 May 1983 Accepted: 24 June 1983 Published: 01 December 1983
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