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Fig. 1.6. Percentage of articles
published in Estuaries and
ECSS distributed in disciplines
for South American estuaries.
Most papers deal with biological issues and rather few of
them consider the Geomorphology and/or the Physical
Oceanography of these coastal
water bodies
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Subject
Argentina Brasil
Chile
Ecuador French Guiana Venezuela Total
Geomorphology
0
0
0
0
0
Physics
3
2
0
0
0
6
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0
0
0
0
0
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2
6
7
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18
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0
3
Biochemistry
0
3
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3
Biology/Physics
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0
0
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0
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Journals and technical reports of relatively low distribution (most of the latter seldom are sent beyond a handful of other institutions) provide 4iYo out of the Latin
American percentage, whereas 23% from the international side corresponds to journals. Interestingly, only 18% out of the 23% corresponds to widest distributed journals, the rest are normally in less common ones published in Germany and France.