Changes in number of authors in ecology journals over time
In a post published on Dynamic Ecology last week, Meghan Duffy presented a graph showing the number of authors of articles published in Ecology for the period 1956-2016. [SPOILER: it increases!]. She also noted that someone probably did something similar for the whole field of ecology but couldn’t find it. Neither could I. I was thinking that it would take a lifetime to collect manually these data (even if I love to spend my time in the dirt of the…