The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary is a dataset published in The Astronomical Journal (2000). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 8.4, placing it in the top 24.3% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 10,440 times, with 99 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 21/100.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detailed investigations of the distribution of luminous and nonluminous matter in the universe: a photometrically and astrometrically calibrated digital imaging survey of π sr above about Galactic latitude 30° in five broad optical bands to a depth ofg' ~ 23 mag, and a spectroscopic survey of the approximately 106brightest galaxies and 105brightest quasars found in the photometric object catalog produced by the imaging survey. This paper summarizes the observational parameters and data products of the SDSS and serves as an introduction to extensive technical on-line documentation.
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Base Score Contribution
1.4
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
7.0
From 99 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by citation count — the same ordering the engine uses when summing log1p(Cq) over citers.
DataRank blends this paper's own citation count with the influence of the papers that cite it. Here, roughly 17% comes from its base citations and 83% from the citation network (99 citing papers contributed measurable signal).
Citers are pulled from OpenAlex sorted by cited_by_count:descand capped per paper, so when the cap binds we keep the highest-signal references and the score is reproducible across reruns.
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