The scientific impact of a facility is the most important measure of its success. Monitoring and analysing the scientific return can help to modify and optimise operations and adapt to the changing needs of scientific research. The methodology that we have developed to monitor the scientific productivity of the ALMA Observatory, as well as the first results, are described. We focus on the outcome of the first cycle (Cycle 0) of ALMA Early Science operations. Despite the fact that only two years have passed since the completion of Cycle 0 and operations have already changed substantially, this analysisconfirms the effectiveness of the underlying concepts. We find that ALMA is fulfilling its promise as a transformational facility for the observation of the Universe in the submillimetre.
@article{arxiv.1601.04499,
title = {ALMA Cycle 0 Publication Statistics},
author = {Felix Stoehr and Uta Grothkopf and Silvia Meakins and Marsha Bishop and Ayako Uchida and Leonardo Testi and Daisuke Iono and Kenichi Tatematsu and Al Wootten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04499},
year = {2016}
}