16. Departments
• Departments are the sum of their
members
• Linear measures, such as total cites, are
inadequate. Sandage = 25 times average
tenured faculty at top 10
17.
18.
19. Countries
• Scientific Productivity is proportional to
GDP squared divided by population
• SP is proportional to the number of
scientists times the per capita GDP
• Downloads in astronomy are a more
stable indicator of SP than citations or
papers
20.
21.
22. Literature
• Bollen, et al “Journal Status”
arXiv:cs.DL/0601030 (2006)
• Kurtz, et al “The Bibliometric Properties of
Article Readership Information”, JASIST
56, 111 (2005)
• Kurtz, et al “Worldwide Use and Impact of
the NASA Astrophysics Data System
Digital Library”, JASIST 56, 36 (2005)
