id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-032623-32m3qko4 Durkin, Louisa When mycologists describe new species, not all relevant information is provided (clearly enough) 2020-09-10 .txt text/plain 7475 391 53 To assess whether fungal species descriptions are attuned to both the wants and needs of a target audience beyond taxonomists and the sign of the times, we explored 10 years' worth of fungal species descriptions of extant mycological taxa in five major mycological journals (plus one botany journal for reference) for a range of factors pertaining to inter-and intra-scientific terms and concepts, science-demographical aspects, and illustrations and visualisations (Tables 1, 2; Suppl. Dark green -proportion of studies mentioning the word "ecology" or its variations; brown -proportion of studies giving a complete account of the taxonomic affiliation of the new species (family, order, and phylum); purple -proportion of studies with a macroscopic colour photo/illustration of the new species; pink -proportion of studies with macroscopic photos, that also indicate the size of the depicted object through a scale bar or a fiducial marker; light green -proportion of studies with an identification key; yellow -proportion of openly available papers for each year as assessed in 2020 B demographical and publication trends showing the average number of coauthors (dark green), departments (brown), countries (purple), continents (pink), and number of data visualizations (light green) over time. ./cache/cord-032623-32m3qko4.txt ./txt/cord-032623-32m3qko4.txt