CODATA: Montreal September 30, 2002
Scientific
Impact of Multi-Mission Archive at Space Telescope Science
Institute
u~10% of the most-cited
papers in the ISI database are based on MAST archival
data
uOver 600 papers/year with HST and other archives
uHST Data: Retrieval rate is 4 times the ingestion
rate
uOver 30,000 datasets requested per month (over 8,000
are non-HST data);
~400,000 web hits per month
From Megan Donahue
STScI