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I was interested in your check on Hoser's species at the RFC. The three species accepted by the Reptile Database were described in 1998 (x2), and 2000, which is well he established the Australasian Journal of Herpetology (although his work was being criticized as far back as 1999). If it would fairly simple for you to produce, I'm curious to see a breakdown of the number of Hoser's species description by year. Plantdrew (talk) 01:28, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

He has a total number of over 2400 registered taxa (all ranks) published in 319 papers (from ZooBank), all self-published from 2009 onwards:

• 1998 (2)
• 2000 (2)
• 2001 (1)
• 2002 (2)
• 2003 (5)
• 2004 (1)
• 2005 (1)
• 2009 (6)
• 2012 (45)
• 2013 (34)
• 2014 (15)
• 2015 (18)
• 2016 (26)
• 2017 (8)
• 2018 (24)
• 2019 (16)
• 2020 (35)
• 2021 (2)
• 2022 (34)
• 2023 (26)
• 2024 (16)

The 1338 individual species also published by year:

• 1998 (7)
• 2000 (10)
• 2001 (3)
• 2002 (6)
• 2003 (10)
• 2004 (6)
• 2005 (1)
• 2009 (13)
• 2012 (28)
• 2013 (54)
• 2014 (36)
• 2015 (46)
• 2016 (82)
• 2017 (49)
• 2018 (90)
• 2019 (107)
• 2020 (256)
• 2021 (75)
• 2022 (157)
• 2023 (148)
• 2024 (154)

Loopy30 (talk) 03:22, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. As I suspected, the species accepted by The Reptile Database are from the earliest years of Hoser's publications, and he was not especially prolific in naming species in those years. The paucity of publications between 2006 and 2011 also speaks to Hoser's turning from doing poor work in sources that weren't self-published to outright self-publication. Plantdrew (talk) 02:15, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and even those few early (accepted) names are tainted with the suspicions/accusations that he was aware of another researcher's works and rushed to publish first in order to "scoop" the name.

He is not respected in academic herpetology circles (see here for example). Sigh. Loopy30 (talk) 15:00, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]