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Appendix B: CubeSat Publications - Descriptive Statistics
Pages 94-100

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... There were 7 articles that listed education research as a topic area. 1  The search included the following Web of Science databases: Web of Science Core Collection, Inspec, Current Contents Connect, KCI Korean Journal Database, and MEDLINE.
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... . Scopus follows a different classification scheme than does WoS, and the papers cover 19 scientific disciplines.
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... SOURCE: Scopus search conducted on January 10, 2016, http://www.scopus.com/.
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... As Figure B.6 shows, almost three-quarters of these papers are engineering oriented; 41 publications are devoted to the five scientific fields of interest.3 Figure B.7 presents a time series of these 41 refereed papers in the five scientific fields of interest, and it shows that over the years, heliophysics has been the dominant field of publication, with planetary science, astronomy, and biology entering the domain in recent years. 3  The category "other" includes publications on policy or educational topics or survey-type articles.
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... search conducted on January 25, 2016, http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu/, accessed January 2016. 45 Other 40 Planetary Science 35 Number of Publications 30 Astronomy and Astrophysics 25 Biological and 20 Physical Sciences Earth Science 15 10 Solar and Space Physics 5 Engineering 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Year FIGURE B.7  Distribution of refereed publications distributed over scientific research areas by year.
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... Overall, the scien 4  Thesepapers were gathered from the previously mentioned literature searches, from publication lists sent by the NSF CubeSat program teams, and from the committee's request to attendees of the community input symposium in Irvine, California.
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... Yet, the engineering and educational impact was considered to be important for many of the investigations, especially because a number of them proved new technologies or instrument techniques.


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