120 Years of “Lemurology” - What has changed?

Lemurs, a highly diverse primate group endemic to Madagascar, have captivated the attention of researchers for nearly 120 years. Here, we conducted a literature review and a bibliometric analysis to provide an overview of how various aspects of “Lemurology”, or the scientific studies of lemurs, have changed over time. Focusing only on original scientific articles, we described the trends in the topics and taxa studied, the publication languages, the authorship, and study sites. We used two datasets: one from the Web of Science (WoS; 2,223 articles) and another from three Madagascar-focused journals (MFJ; 329 articles). The observation of lemurs in the wild is the oldest form of Lemurology, starting under the French colonization, and remains the main data source for articles in both datasets. Microcebus and Eulemur are the most studied genera in WoS and Propithecus and Eulemur in MFJ. At this time, no articles are written in Malagasy, but English and French are the main languages used in..., We searched for publications on Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) in September 2022. We used “LEMUR” as a keyword in “All fields” settings and did not set a time limit to review as much literature as possible. Our search was then refined to only include scientific articles, i.e., original peer-reviewed articles, excluding opinion pieces, conference and meeting proceedings, reviews, theses, books, and book chapters. 
We downloaded and consulted all issues of the journal issues of Lemur News, Malagasy Nature, and Madagascar Conservation and Development in early 2023. We then built a dataset from these journals by reading the title and abstract of each scientific article and retaining only those about lemurs. This dataset comprised 329 articles published between 1993 and 2023., , # Data from: 120 Years of “Lemurology”: What has changed?

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jm63xsjnf](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jm63xsjnf)

## Description of the data and file structure

### General information

1.    Title of Dataset: 120YL Database WoS MFJ.xlsx

2.    Author Information

a)    Principal Investigator Contact Information

•    Name: Onja H. Razafindratsima

•    Institution: UC Berkeley

•    Email: [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

b)   Associate Contact Information

•    Name: Veronarindra Ramananjato

•    Institution: UC Berkeley

•    Email: [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

c)    Associate Contact Information

•    Name: Finaritra Randimbiarison

•    Institution: UC Berkeley

•    Email: [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

3.    Date of data collection: 1900 - September 2022

4.    Geographic location of data collection...,