Publications

After some comments from somebody noting that our publication lists were likely inflated because we included some non-refereed and/or low-rated journals, a full review was done of all the publications we list. In particular, we only count refereed journal publications in A&A, MNRAS, PASP, ApJ, ApJL, ApJS, Astronomische Nachrichten, Icarus, Nature, and Science, where the specific distribution across these journals is now shown in graphical form on our publication web-page, see:

     http://www.not.iac.es/news/publications/

Of course, one can always discuss the precise criteria that are applied to include a paper in the list (e.g., we are possibly less complete as for publications in Astronomische Nachrichten, Icarus, and Science, while the ING does not include Astronomische Nachrichten or Icarus in their lists at all) and this might affect the precise numbers, but should not have any strong impact on any general trends or global comparisons with other telescopes (e.g., the publication list for the NOT from the last two years does not include any papers in Astronomische Nachrichten or Icarus, and very few papers in these journals in general).