Impact of NASA EOS instrument data on the scientific literature: 10 years of published research results from Terra, Aqua, and Aura (Invited Presentation)

In the absence of formal data set citation standards in the literature, there is no quantitative information on the connection between data distributed from NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) data centers and subsequent research published using EOS data. This talk examines the 13-year citation history of research using EOS instrument data (2000-2012) in the peer-reviewed literature. The high volume of published EOS-related papers is indicative of the use of data from the NASA DAACs and comprises a significant contribution to the body of scientific knowledge about the Earth's climate. In addition, the Goddard Author's collection in the NASA Goddard Library's Institutional Repository will be discussed.