Two years of ALMA bibliography - lessons learned

TL;DR

This paper reviews two years of ALMA bibliography management, detailing procedures for identifying relevant publications, linking them to data, and analyzing scientific output, with lessons learned for future improvements.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive overview of the ALMA bibliography process, including methods for article identification, data linking, and community communication, along with initial analysis of publication trends.

Findings

Streamlined procedures improved bibliography accuracy.

ALMA data significantly contributed to published research.

Initial publication analysis reveals research trends and impact.

Abstract

Telescope bibliographies are integral parts of observing facilities. They are used to associate the published literature with archived observational data, to measure an observatory's scientific output through publication and citation statistics, and to define guidelines for future observing strategies. The ESO and NRAO librarians as well as NAOJ jointly maintain the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) bibliography, a database of refereed papers that use ALMA data. In this paper, we illustrate how relevant articles are identified, which procedures are used to tag entries in the database and link them to the correct observations, and how results are communicated to ALMA stakeholders and the wider community. Efforts made to streamline the process will be explained and evaluated, and a first analysis of ALMA papers published after two years of observations will be given.