Writing software or writing scientific articles?

Author

Basaglia, T. ; Bell, Z.W. ; Dressendorfer, P.V. ; Larkin, A. ; Pia, M.G.

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 26 2007-Nov. 3 2007

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

226

Abstract

An analysis of publications related to high energy physics computing in refereed journals is presented. The distribution of papers associated to various fields of computing relevant to high energy physics is critically analyzed. The relative publication rate of software papers is evaluated in comparison to other closely related physics disciplines, such as nuclear physics, radiation protection and medical physics, and to hardware publications. The results hint to the fact that, in spite of the significant effort invested in high energy physics computing and its fundamental role in the experiments, this research area is underrepresented in scientific literature; nevertheless the analysis of citations highlights the significant impact of software publications in experimental research.

Keywords

high energy physics instrumentation computing; literature; hardware publications; high energy physics computing; medical physics; nuclear physics; radiation protection; scientific literature; software papers; Citation analysis; Distributed computing; Hardware; Intersymbol interference; Keyword search; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Paper technology; Physics computing; Transaction databases; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. NSS '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0922-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436319

Filename

4436319