Leslie Kiefer | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

LISA 10 -- Library and Information Services in Astronomy. Report on the ESO workshop

The 10th LISA conference (LISA 10) took place at ESO Chile in early November 2025. The theme, Research Equity and Access in the Age of AI, highlighted the rapidly evolving landscape of scholarly communication in astronomy. Artificial intelligence, open access mandates, and expanding data archives are transforming scientific practice and information in an increasingly interdisciplinary research environment. Through presentations, posters, and discussions, LISA 10 explored how these developments are redefining the management of astronomy information work and the role of librarians.

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arXiv2026

ALMA publication statistics

The success of an astronomical facility is measured by its scientific impact. A principal metric for this impact is the ensemble of peer-reviewed publications based on the observational data obtained by the facility. We present a comprehensive study of the statistics of the 4190 refereed publications of the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the period from 2012 to 2024. The publications have received 169,985 citations and are based on 2670 ALMA projects totalling 19,265 hr of 12 m-array-equivalent observing time. Our study analyses publication statistics related to various aspects, e.g., science categories, geographical distribution, archival research, time to publication, publication fraction, and citations. We also look into the community and compare ALMA with other facilities. We find that ALMA is a high-impact observatory with ~70% of observed projects published, ~40% of publications making use of archival data in 2024, more than 9400 unique authors, and a publication evolution following that of HST and VLT. Currently, the impact factor for ALMA publications is larger than that of all other major astronomical facilities. ALMA also plays a pivotal role in very long baseline interferometry, substantially contributing to landmark achievements such as capturing the first image of a black hole shadow.

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