ESA-related scientific articles by Finnish researchers can be found in one place

Are you interested in research data published by the European Space Agency (ESA) that includes Finnish researchers? The file now compiled contains all publications with Finnish authors over a period of 40 years.

The file contains publications from 1983 to the end of 2023. The contents of the file, the handling of organisational affiliations and the principles are presented below.

Excel file content and organisational affiliation handling

1. File purpose

The Excel file contains all publications from 1983 onwards with Finnish authors (first or second authors). Each row corresponds to one post.

2. Columns in the file

The following information is stored for each publication:

• BIBCODE
• Authors
• Year
• Journal
• Volume, Page
• Title
• URL, DOI
• Affiliate (multiple columns)

3. Organisational affiliations

What does organisational affiliation mean?
Organisational affiliation is the author's connection to the organisation at the time of publication (e.g. university, department, research institute).
 

Principles

• All organisational affiliations are kept exactly in their original form.
• If multiple authors have an affiliation to the same organisation, the organisation may appear multiple times in the file.
• Minor differences in addresses and names (e.g. institutional qualifiers, "currently at", "formerly associated with") are not combined or corrected, as they may contain relevant information.
• If the author has organisational affiliations both in Finland and abroad, all links are listed, not just Finnish ones.
• Organisational affiliations can tell about a researcher's career path or organisational changes.
• Even small styling differences can be relevant in a scientific context.
• The aim is to keep the data in the original format of the research publications, so that no information is lost or misinterpreted.
   

Conclusion

• The file contains all publications that include Finnish authors, from 1983 to the end of 2023.
• Full publication metadata and all organisational affiliations as published are included.
• The data is not normalised, combined, or filtered to maintain the original accuracy.
• The solution enables reliable further analysis of, for example, organisational changes, researcher mobility and international connections.
   

For more information about the publication, please contact ESA: [email protected]
Older than 1983: [email protected]

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and SpaceFinland are not responsible for the list and are not able to carry out searches. The list has been obtained from ESA.