# I'm missing from the global leaderboard (observers by species)

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**Created:** [January 11, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/im-missing-from-the-global-leaderboard-observers-by-species/60401 "2025-01-11T03:26:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![invertebratist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/invertebratist/32/33400_2.png) [@invertebratist](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/invertebratist)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/im-missing-from-the-global-leaderboard-observers-by-species/60401/1 "2025-01-11T03:26:44Z")

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Although not so important, it’s always interesting to see how many biodiversity I’ve documented compared to others on iNat.

I have uploaded observations of 3069 taxa (identified to species or further) so I should be around #344 ish in this leaderboard (click ‘‘species’’ to see it by the number of species observed - unrelated but stuff identified to just genus for example is excluded from this count because of algorism reasons).

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?view=observers](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?view=observers)

However, I can’t find my username here. However my name shows up (as it should) when I limit the geographical area to New Zealand for example.

Is this a common issue?  
I would like to know if there’s anyone else with the same issue and if there’s a way to fix this.

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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/im-missing-from-the-global-leaderboard-observers-by-species/60401/2 "2025-01-11T03:30:25Z")

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i think this is the same problem descrbed in [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/user-with-many-species-is-excluded-from-stats-if-not-within-top-200-observers-in-traditional-project/42912](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/user-with-many-species-is-excluded-from-stats-if-not-within-top-200-observers-in-traditional-project/42912)

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**Author:** ![thebeachcomber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thebeachcomber/32/12748_2.png) [@thebeachcomber](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thebeachcomber)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/im-missing-from-the-global-leaderboard-observers-by-species/60401/3 "2025-01-11T03:59:16Z")

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Yes, to my knowledge the global Explore leaderboard sorted by number of species observed does not show the top 500 observers with most species; it shows the top 500 observers by most observations, ordered by their number of species

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**Author:** ![invertebratist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/invertebratist/32/33400_2.png) [@invertebratist](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/invertebratist)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/im-missing-from-the-global-leaderboard-observers-by-species/60401/4 "2025-01-11T04:05:24Z")

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That explains everything, thank you so much!

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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/im-missing-from-the-global-leaderboard-observers-by-species/60401/5 "2025-03-12T04:05:40Z")

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