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88 raised awareness on the importance of the phenomenon at a world-wide scale (Richardson & Pysek 2008). In Europe, the number of publications dealing explicitly with invasion ecology is increasing exponentially since the early nineties (Figure 4). The top 10 international journals publishing papers on biological invasions is as follows (number of papers published between brackets): Biological Invasions (107), Diversity and distribution (90), Hydrobiologia (72), Journal of Applied Ecology (63), Molecular Ecology (59), Biological Conservation (58), Biodiversity and Conservation (41), Marine Ecology (38), Oecologia (38) and Journal of Biogeography (34). Number of publications 1000 100 10 1 1990 Europe Belgium 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 Years 2002 2004 2006 2008 Figure 4 - Growth in the number of publications registered on Web of Science, by European and Belgian scientists. Publications by Belgian scientists on biological invasions started to appear with a time lag of 6 to 9 years compared to the overall production in Europe (figure 4). With a total of 88 international publications, Belgium rates 7 th amongst European countries, after correcting the number of publication for population size of the country (figure 5A). The impact of publications by Belgian scientists, as measured by the average number of times they are cited, appears to be relatively low when compared to those by their European colleagues (figure 5B). On top of international publications, Belgian scientists produce significant amounts of valuable “grey” literature. Notwithstanding the sometimes unjustified poor perception of such publications, they are particularly useful for risk assessment and management purposes. An example is the “Catalogue of the Neophytes in Belgium” (1800-2005) (Verloove 2006) or the various reports produced by scientists of the Research Institute for Nature and Forest. Most of these publications are referred to in the Harmonia information system of the Belgian Forum on Invasive Species and in the data centre of the Flanders Marine Institute. Twenty percent of Belgian papers published in WoS-indexed journals result from BelSPO funded projects. This concerns mainly research teams that are member of the INPLANBEL-PERINBEL-ALIEN IMPACT suite of projects. The following laboratories also contributed significantly to the production of Belgian publications related to invasion ecology: Animal Ecology (UA), Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology (ULB), Biological Control and Spatial Ecology (ULB), Forestry (UGent) and Forest, Nature and Landscape (KUL). Despite the high level of the scientific research dedicated to invasion ecology in Belgium, only few research teams have been able to exploit European funding sources. The only institutions involved in European Research and Technology Development (RTD)
Residuals (N x HAB) Times Cited count 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 -50 -100 -150 -200 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 UK UK FR FI IE SE NL RO CZ SL SE LI BE CZ FI DK ES NL PT FR ET ET DK LU Figure 5: Country ranking based on the two performance indicators: number of WoS publications corrected for population size (A) and Times Cited count of WoS publications (B). CY Countries DE ES IE Countries LI GR SL BE AT CY SK BG GR IT HU HU BG AT RO PL IT SK DE PT PL LU A B 89
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