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
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21
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INGLESE
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Article
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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.