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HEXAPODA YEARBOOK (ARTHROPODA: MANDIBULATA: PANCRUSTACEA) BRAZIL 2020: THE FIRST ANNUAL PRODUCTION SURVEY OF NEW BRAZILIAN SPECIES
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This paper provided a list of all new Brazilian Hexapoda species described in 2020. Furthermore, based on the information extracted
by this list, we tackled additional questions regarding the taxa, the specialists involved in the species descriptions as well as the journals in
which those papers have been published. We recorded a total of 680 new Brazilian species of Hexapoda described in 2020, classified in 245
genera, 112 families and 18 orders. These 680 species were published in a total of 219 articles comprising 423 different authors residing in
27 countries. Only 30% of these authors are women, which demonstrates an inequality regarding sexes. In relation to the number of authors
by species, the majority of the new species had two authors and the maximum of authors by species was five. We also found inequalities
in the production of described species regarding the regions of Brazil, with Southeast and South leading. The top 10 institutions regarding
productions of new species have four in the Southeast, two at South and with one ate North Region being the outlier of this pattern. Out of
the total 219 published articles, Zootaxa dominated with 322 described species in 95 articles. The average impact factor was of 1.4 with only
seven articles being published in Impact Factors above 3, indicating a hardship on publishing taxonomic articles in high-impact journals. The
highlight of this paper is that it is unprecedent, as no annual record of Hexapoda species described was ever made in previous years to Brazil.
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