1802.03272
The ESO Survey of non-publishing programmes
Patat, et al
One of the classic ways to measure the success of a scientific facility is the publication return, which is defined as the refereed papers produced per unit of allocated resources (for example, telescope time or proposals). The recent studies by Sterzik+(2015,16) have shown that 30-50% of the programmes allocated time at ESO do not produce a refereed publication. While this may be inherent to the scientific process, this finding prompted further investigation. For this purpose, ESO conducted a Survey of Non-Publishing Programmes (SNPP) within the activities of the Time Allocation Working Group, a similar to the monitoring campaign that was recently implemented at ALMA (Stoehr+2016). The SNPP targeted 1278 programmes scheduled between ESO periods 78 and 90 (Oct 2006 to March 2013) that had not published a refereed paper as of April 2016. The poll was launched on 6 May 2016, remained open for 4 weeks, and returned 965 valid responses. This article summaries and discusses the results of this survey, the first of its kind at ESO.
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