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Abstract

We analyzed the articles cited in 4 reviews on various aspects of Mediterranean marine and freshwater fishes.In total, these reviews used 498 published sources, from which less than 40% were in journals covered by Thomson ISI.The remaining sources were published either in local journals (23.5%) or in other media formats (e.g.theses, conference proceedings, technical reports).Thus, searching only the ISI's database produces a strongly biased picture of the scientific output of professionals studying Mediterranean ecosystems.This results in a devaluation of the scientific effort devoted to the Mediterranean Sea.Such a bias has ethical and science policy implications, arising from applying double standards.Thus, although the non-ISI publications and their citations are not used for the evaluation of countries, or institutions, the information included in these non-ISI articles is frequently used to develop and test scientific theories.In the new electronic era, it is untenable to use only traditional citation-search methods for any professional evaluation; new online options should be fully exploited for such purposes.

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