Using bibliometrics this white paper shows: The observing facilities that Canada supports financially are amongst the highest performing, both in productivity and impact, of facilities world-wide. For most observing facilities, Canadian any author papers have higher impact per paper than that of the full bibliography of the facility. However, Canadian first author papers on most facilities have a lower impact per paper than that of the full bibliography of a facility Almost 80% of Canadian first author papers based on telescope data are authored by either students or PDFs. Using ADS numbers, for the period 2014 – 2017 Canada ranks second in the world in mean impact per paper when considering any author papers. However, when considering only Canadian first author papers, Canada ranks only 8th in the same metric. The number of Canadian first author papers has declined slightly since 2010 (based on ADS numbers), while the number has increased for most of our ‘competitors’. Based upon the publication history of Canadian faculty members, a person’s first author paper production peaks during their postdoc years and then declines once they have a faculty position.

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