Research infrastructures in the LHC era: a scientometric approach
Abstract
When a research infrastructure is funded and implemented, new information and new publications are created. This new information is the measurable output of discovery process. In this paper, we describe the impact of infrastructure for physics experiments in terms of publications and citations. In particular, we consider the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments (ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, LHCb) and compare them to the Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP) experiments (ALEPH, DELPHI, L3, OPAL) and the Tevatron experiments (CDF, D0). We provide an overview of the scientific output of these projects over time and highlight the role played by remarkable project results in the publication-citation distribution trends. The methodological and technical contribution of this work provides a starting point for the development of a theoretical model of modern scientific knowledge propagation over time.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2016
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1601.03746
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1601.03746
- Bibcode:
- 2016arXiv160103746C
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Physics and Society;
- Computer Science - Digital Libraries;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 39 pages, 9 figures, final version published in TFS Special Issue with updated references