Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec

[6] Since 2014, a network of researchers from various scientific backgrounds has been working on traces as part of the e-Laboratory on Human-Trace-Complex System Digital Campus UNESCO.

This is a collection of works regularly publishing articles by research scientists contributing to the emergence of the new French school of thinking with respect to trace.

For the author, a human being's body-trace, (there is no separation between the body and the mind) possesses a plasticity which is the result of the interactions with the surroundings in which he/she lives (nature, culture, techniques, society, etc.)

According to the author, body-trace and environment-trace have been retro-acting in a systemic dynamic since the beginning of humanity, which explains the co-evolution of species and the environment which she analyzes using her "theory of General Ichnology".

Nevertheless, if reference is made to certain indexing tools like Google Scholar, citations lead us to conclude that their uses in French articles in the humanities between 2008 and 2018 were more often linked to the evocative power of the words that form them than the systemic, dynamic and multi-scale perspective that they encompass for their author.

The traces of digital consultations[21] of the works and publications reveal a 60% readership in academia and various geographical horizons: The United States, Canada, Brazil, The United Kingdom, Italy, Romania, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, India, The Philippines, Turkey, Mauritius, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Gabon, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Switzerland).

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, observations of the consequence-traces of human confinement on the drop in pollution,[22] widens the author's influence which had repeatedly warned about the pragmatic interest of the ecosystem present in the Human-Trace paradigm.