Usefulness and dangers of relying on grant acknowledgments in an observatory bibliography

Sherry Winkelman; Arnold Rots

doi:10.1117/12.2231668

11 July 2016 Usefulness and dangers of relying on grant acknowledgments in an observatory bibliography

Sherry Winkelman, Arnold Rots

Proceedings Volume 9910, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI; 99101W (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231668
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a quantitative assessment of how well grant and/or program acknowledgments reflect the science impact of Chandra observing, archive, and theory programs and to assess whether observatory acknowledgments alone are a good indicator for inclusion in an observatory bibliography. For grant citations we find that curators will often need to determine the correct grant being cited and they will need to assess relationship between the content of a paper and the grant proposal being cited for statistics to be meaningful. We also find a significant number of papers can be attributed to observing programs through grant links only and that performing full-text searches against the ADS for grant numbers can lead to additional articles for inclusion in the bibliography. When looking at acknowledgment sections as a whole, we find that using an observatory acknowledgment as the sole source for determining inclusion in a bibliography will greatly underestimate the number of science papers attributable to the observatory.

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Sherry Winkelman and Arnold Rots "Usefulness and dangers of relying on grant acknowledgments in an observatory bibliography", Proc. SPIE 9910, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI, 99101W (11 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231668

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