Metrics

The publication metrics is a tool for measurig the scientific impact of an astronomer as well as an instrument.

Here we report the publication metrics for papers based at least partially on SofI data as for 2008, hoping that this information may be useful to the community. The literature survey is provided by ESO Library and that further statistics are available through the ESO Telescope Bibliography. A plot for all the La Silla instruments can be seen here.

Year No. of Papers Average No. of citations
1999 8 26
2000 21 46.33
2001 32 33.47
2002 47 48.94
2003 52 32.13
2004 61 44.66
2005 46 23.83
2006 54 20.74
2007 48 12.42
2008 63 6.19
Total 424 268.71

Addtional Information

Check the following file to papers informations sofi.xlsx

High impact papers

  • 100 citations or more - 22
  • 50 citations or more - 37