[Taxacom] Taxonomic output study

[Kipling (Kip) Will]

On 5/26/2012 4:41 PM, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
> I haven't read the paper yet, but does "non-professional taxonomist"
> include retired professionals and/or research associate types like
> myself who do paid work now and again related to their taxonomic
> interests, but are not strictly professional taxonomists? It goes
> without saying that, in todays world, more and more time of
> professional taxonomists (sensu stricto) gets diverted into other
> things than just straight taxonomy ...
>
> Stephen


 From the methods section of the paper:

> Professional taxonomists, who are paid to do taxonomy: those having a
> formal taxonomic position in a research facility for instance, and
> students who benefit from grants to become professional taxonomists.
> An academic researcher dividing his or her working time between
> research on conservation biology (or other non-taxonomic biological
> discipline) and taxonomy would be categorized as a professional
> taxonomist, as long as taxonomy is not incidental in his or her
> official position;
 >
 > Non-professional taxonomists, who do taxonomy on a
> volunteer basis: this include amateurs in the broad sense, i.e.
> people who do taxonomy for pleasure, during their spare time, and get
> their income from other occupations. Among these amateurs are people
> who followed curricula in taxonomy but did not get a position in this
> discipline. Retired taxonomists, who are often very active, are also
> included in this category because they do not rely on doing taxonomy
> to get their income.
>


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