MSV-2035 Astronomy Document - Inside Design - FINAL - FINAL

Astronomy & Astrophysics 102 • Provide funding for instrument or technology development as a part of participation inmega-projects. • Encourage and support participation in national and international workshops and conferences. • Support projects accepted for use of the facilities. Initiate and support programmes that will make use of archival data generated. For instance, ISRO provides support for successful proposals to utilise archival AstroSat data and this has had a very positive impact on the usage of the data. • Conduct national-level workshops in focused research areas that will encourage the community to think of the science and required instrumentation, as well as prepare the community for efficient use of the facilities. • Encourage collaborations in focused areas. Support small workshops in areas that require inputs from diverse disciplines to develop expertise in the country. • Encourage interdisciplinary workshops. For instance, workshops that involve experts from associated disciplines like fluid dynamics, atomic theory, particle physics, engineering (for instrumentation), computer science, machine learning, etc., can be supported to enhance expertise and develop interdisciplinary linkages. Figure 14: Impact of astronomy publications. We have plotted the h-index for publications in Astronomy. This is taken five years after the year of publications. The x-axis shows the year of publication and the y-axis is the h-index after five years for these publications. This is a measure of how the publications are being viewed by the larger community. In general the h-index is expected to be a slow but stable indicator of citations as it is not influenced by outliers. We see that the h-index measured after five years has increased by almost a factor of four since 1997. Note that we are considering citations five years after publications and hence the last point is for 2018. MEGA SCIENCE VISION-2035