An overview of bibliometric indicators about endangered Brazilian Cerrado plant species

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/rca.v16i3.9275

Keywords:

Endemism, Flora, Savanna, Scientometrics.

Abstract

The Cerrado is an important Brazilian biome due to the high levels of endemism and species diversity. Due to anthropic actions and natural causes, the Cerrado also includes some species of plants threatened with extinction.  We perform a bibliometric survey of scientific information regarding a set of endangered Cerrado plant species to answer two main questions: i) How much is known about Brazilian endemic plant species in the Cerrado threatened with extinction?; and ii) When, by whom and where were scientific articles on endemic endangered Cerrado plants published? We identified and mapped science to a list of 117 endemic endangered species of Cerrado flora from 35 different families. A total of 151 articles were published with these species and indexed on the Scopus database. We found that even after more than twenty years of the publication of the normative instruction, little is known about these species from a scientific point of view.

Author Biographies

Emilly Layne Martins Nascimento, Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG).

Graduated in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG). Master's student in the Graduate Program in Universidade Estadual de Goiás (RENAC-UEG).

Paula Aparecida Costa de Abreu, Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG).

Graduated in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG).

Rayane Rodrigues da Cunha Silva, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG).

Graduated in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG). Master's student in the Graduate Program in Ecologia e Evolução (UFG).

Rhewter Nunes, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG).

Graduated in Biological Sciences from Instituto Federal Goiano (2013) and PhD in Genetics and Plant Improvement from Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG).

Flávia Melo Rodrigues, Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG) e Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás - PUC Goiás.

Graduated in Biomedicine (1997), Master in Biology (2000) and PhD in Environmental Sciences (2005) from the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG). Is currently a teacher at Universidade Estadual de Goiás - UEG - and Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás - PUC Goiás, working in the Stricto Sensu (Master) Graduate Programs in Genetics and Environmental Sciences and Health. Has experience in Genetics, with emphasis on Animal, Human and Medical Molecular Genetics, working mainly on the following topics: Molecular Genetics, Molecular Markers and Conservation Genetics.

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Published

2022-12-29

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Vol. 16 No. 3 (2022)

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