Trimble V. "Telescopes in the mirror of scientometrics" Experimental Astronomy 26(1-3): 133-147, Aug. 2009

[Eugene Garfield]

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E-mail Addresses: vtrimble at uci.edu   

TITLE :  Telescopes in the mirror of scientometrics 
         a UIUC Catalog c UIC Catalog

Author(s): Trimble V (Trimble, Virginia)1,2    

Source: EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY    Volume: 26    Issue: 1-3    Pages: 133-
147    Published: AUG 2009    

Times Cited: 0     References: 18     Citation Map      

Abstract: Counting papers and citations is one way to estimate the 
significance of particular astronomical telescopes and other facilities in 
the long time gap between the verdict of history and the referee's report 
on your most recent proposal. This has been done for 2,184 observational 
astronomy papers published between 1960 and 1964 (with 14,237 citations in 
1965-1969) and the numbers looked at in various ways. The extreme dominance 
of California in optical astronomy and of the UK and Australia in radio 
astronomy provides the background against which ESO, NOAO, NRAO, and A&A 
were founded, with equality of access to facilities having increased 
enormously in the intervening 40 years, but inequality of results having 
increased slightly. A number of other factoids about astronomical 
publications, the community, and their environments surfaced during the 
counting process, and a subset reported here, including a few pertaining to 
the more distant past.   

Reprint Address: Trimble, V (reprint author), Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys 
& Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA    

Addresses: 
1. Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA  
2. Cumbres Observ, Goleta, CA USA   

E-mail Addresses: vtrimble at uci.edu    

Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, 
NETHERLANDS  
IDS Number: 469KG  
ISSN: 0922-6435  
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-009-9158-5  

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