Bibliographies Have Taxonomic Patterns

 

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Bibliographies Have Taxonomic Patterns

Donald A. Windsor

Yes they do. Bibliographies are 3-tiered nested sets, just as are biological taxonomic families.

    Family ⊃ Genus ⊃ Species is equivalent to Subject ⊃ Source ⊃ Article.

Taxonomic patterns of biological families were covered in my two previous posts.

Sources are the equivalent of genera and articles are equivalent to species. Competition for getting articles published is as existential as is biological evolution. Taxonomic patterns reflect this equivalency.

While this concept may seem confusing, it becomes clear when examples are seen. My full article is too long for a blog, but it can be obtained by clicking this link.  

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343852100_Bibliographies_Have_Taxonomic_Patterns

Reference cited:

Windsor, Donald A. Bibliographies have taxonomic patterns. SciAesthetics Essays 2020 August: 20-26. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14592.05127

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