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| Paper: |
Swift Publication Statistics and the Comparison with Other Major Observatories |
| Volume: |
492, LISA VII: Open Science: At the Frontiers of Librarianship |
| Page: |
133 |
| Authors: |
Savaglio, S.; Grothkopf, U. |
| Abstract: |
Swift is a satellite aimed at detecting gamma-ray bursts (GRB), the most energetic explosions in the universe. Launched at the end of 2004 and funded until 2016, it is equipped with γ-ray, X-ray, and optical-UV instrumentation and discovers, localizes, and collects data for more than a hundred GRBs per year. We studied the bibliometrics produced with Swift data and found that it is one of the most successful medium-size missions ever. The production in 2005 was 24 papers, and has steadily increased to 328 in the year 2013, surpassing the Keck telescope. If this trend continues, Swift may soon be approaching the publication numbers of the other two high-energy satellites XMM-Newton and Chandra. Also, the number of citations shows a great success for Swift. The Swift user community publishes mostly in ApJS (almost 50% of the papers) as well as A&A and MNRAS (approx. a quarter each). In the years 2005–2013, 47 papers (2.7%) were published in the high-impact journals Nature and Science. |
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