Let's explore the bibliography of this paper by John C. Linnell, Jon E. Swenson, and Reidar Anderson.
​
Click here to access the paper.
The data points below show the geographical location of the researchers who authored papers cited in the bibliography. By exploring this map, you can see the global conversation that researchers have through publication over time, as research findings build upon one another.
​
Many papers cited have multiple authors, and in many cases these authors are located at different institutions. These private conversations that happen actively during the research process turn into global conversations through the act of publishing research findings.
​
Can you find the location of the researchers who contributed to the paper's bibliography? Scroll to the bottom of the page for the full References List.
​
Tracking a Global
Conversation
Despite there being so many different researchers, how many different publishers are there? What does the fact that these researchers published in the same few publication titles tell us about how scholars communicate with each other in real time?
​
We can further explore how all of these papers contributed to the ongoing scholarly conversation about carnivore conservation by looking at which researchers cite this paper in the next part of this module.