TRENDS IN ASTRONOMICAL PUBLICATION BETWEEN 1975 AND 1996

Citation
E. Schulman et al., TRENDS IN ASTRONOMICAL PUBLICATION BETWEEN 1975 AND 1996, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 109(741), 1997, pp. 1278-1284
Citations number
21
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ISSN journal
0004-6280 → ACNP
Volume
109
Issue
741
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1278 - 1284
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-6280(1997)109:741<1278:TIAPB1>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Trends in astronomical publication have traditionally been studied by examining the few thousand papers published in a few selected journals within a few selected years. With the development of comprehensive bi bliographic databases such as ADS and SIMBAD, publication trends can n ow be studied using tens of thousands of papers published in a number of refereed astronomy journals. The ADS has extensive bibliographic in formation on almost every paper published in seven major astronomy jou rnals over the past two decades; the SIMBAD database can be used to ve rify critical bibliographic information such as the number of authors and the length of the papers, Here we present results of a study of as tronomical publication trends using 76,000 papers published in A&A, A& AS, AJ, ApJ, ApJS, MNRAS, and PASP between 1975 and 1996, Two trends a re particularly interesting: the fraction of single-author papers has decreased by about a factor of three in the last 20 years, while astro nomical papers with more than 50 authors have become increasingly comm on since 1990.