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<blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 2508469" data-attributes="member: 24811"><p>Not that I'm really touched by the issue, but the use that is made of Google Scholar, here, looks seriously flawed to me...</p><p></p><p>Magellanic cormorant (no quotes: two keywords, "magellanic" and "cormorant") indeed produces <a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=magellanic+cormorant&hl=en&sciui=1&num=100&newwindow=1&as_sdt=0,5" target="_blank">some 850-and-a-few hits in Google Scholar</a>. But looking at these a bit closer will quickly reveal that most are in fact papers addressing Magellanic <em><strong>Penguin</strong></em> (apparently a much more popular study subject than <em>Phalacrocorax magellanicus</em>), that also happen to refer to some species of cormorant...</p><p></p><p>"Magellanic Cormorant" (with quotes) produces <a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22magellanic+cormorant%22&hl=en&sciui=1&num=100&newwindow=1&as_sdt=0,5" target="_blank">only 21 hits</a>.</p><p>The first one is: <a href="http://notornis.osnz.org.nz/system/files/Notornis_33_4.pdf" target="_blank">Siegel-Causey D. (1986): The behaviour and affinities of the Magellanic Cormorant (<em>Phalacrocorax magellanicus</em>). <em>Notornis</em>, 33:249-257.</a></p><p>The others include a 1969 paper to which I've no access.</p><p>None of the remaining links, AFAICS, are to works that <em>actually use</em> "Magellanic Cormorant" as a name: they are to works that simply <em>have the title of the 1986 Siegel-Causey paper cited in full among their references</em>. Some do not use any English name (quite a few are in Spanish, one is in German); others (among which several other Siegel-Causey papers) use "Rock Shag", sometimes prominently.</p><p></p><p>IOW, Google Scholar apparently provides a grand total of one (perhaps two) real instance(s) of use of "Magellanic Cormorant": quite different from the claimed 851...</p><p>Surely, if anything, this should suggest that this name is not at all "in frequent use" in the literature...?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="l_raty, post: 2508469, member: 24811"] Not that I'm really touched by the issue, but the use that is made of Google Scholar, here, looks seriously flawed to me... Magellanic cormorant (no quotes: two keywords, "magellanic" and "cormorant") indeed produces [URL="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=magellanic+cormorant&hl=en&sciui=1&num=100&newwindow=1&as_sdt=0,5"]some 850-and-a-few hits in Google Scholar[/URL]. But looking at these a bit closer will quickly reveal that most are in fact papers addressing Magellanic [I][B]Penguin[/B][/I] (apparently a much more popular study subject than [I]Phalacrocorax magellanicus[/I]), that also happen to refer to some species of cormorant... "Magellanic Cormorant" (with quotes) produces [URL="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22magellanic+cormorant%22&hl=en&sciui=1&num=100&newwindow=1&as_sdt=0,5"]only 21 hits[/URL]. The first one is: [URL="http://notornis.osnz.org.nz/system/files/Notornis_33_4.pdf"]Siegel-Causey D. (1986): The behaviour and affinities of the Magellanic Cormorant ([I]Phalacrocorax magellanicus[/I]). [I]Notornis[/I], 33:249-257.[/URL] The others include a 1969 paper to which I've no access. None of the remaining links, AFAICS, are to works that [I]actually use[/I] "Magellanic Cormorant" as a name: they are to works that simply [I]have the title of the 1986 Siegel-Causey paper cited in full among their references[/I]. Some do not use any English name (quite a few are in Spanish, one is in German); others (among which several other Siegel-Causey papers) use "Rock Shag", sometimes prominently. IOW, Google Scholar apparently provides a grand total of one (perhaps two) real instance(s) of use of "Magellanic Cormorant": quite different from the claimed 851... Surely, if anything, this should suggest that this name is not at all "in frequent use" in the literature...? [/QUOTE]
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