Telescope Bibliometrics 101
Uta Grothkopf, Jill Lagerstrom
TL;DR
This paper explores the role of bibliometric studies in astronomy, focusing on methodologies used by librarians and potential features of future bibliographies to evaluate scientific impact.
Contribution
It provides an overview of current bibliometric practices in astronomy and discusses future directions for bibliographies and impact assessment.
Findings
Librarians play a key role in maintaining publication databases.
Current methodologies focus on publication and citation analysis.
Future bibliographies may include advanced features for impact evaluation.
Abstract
During recent years, bibliometric studies have become increasingly important in evaluating individual scientists, institutes, and entire observatories. In astronomy, often librarians are involved in maintaining publication databases and compiling statistics for their institutions. In this paper, we present a look behind the scenes to understand who is interested in bibliometric statistics, which methodologies astronomy librarians apply, and what kind of features next-generation bibliographies may include.
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