Activités et besoins du centre d'océanographie de Nouméa
Ce rapport présente une analyse très complète de l'état de la Science des Sols en France. L'auteur traite des aspects conceptuels et structurels caractérisant cette discipline. Grâce à une démarche critique, il en envisage les perspectives de développement.
A bibliometric analysis of the publications on tropical soils and agriculture shows that different strategies can be found across countries, in the way scientists publish and disseminate their results, choose their research topics (fertilization and microbiology of soil being the research priorities in the Third World), and distribute their effort ...
The article analyzes the production and the diffusion of the scientific products of sixty-one researchers in soil sciences belonging to ORSTOM. In a period corresponding to two scientific generations we have observed important changes in writing and publishing habits. Non-published reports have lost importance while article production has grown. Al...