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1 year ago This has been updated as of March 6 2023, https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=LSSTDESC&title=Use+Cases+Illustrating+the+DESC+Publication+Policy
@kadrlica mentioned at the February 2022 DESC meeting that the current publication policy states:
"The DESC data releases consist of material produced within the DESC and made available to the community in machine-readable form after submission of the corresponding data release paper (and no later than its publication). This includes processed (or reprocessed) data and results of numerical simulations, along with their documentation. The refereed journal papers that document DESC data releases are Key Papers.
Key DESC papers (“Key Papers") describe data releases and scientific analyses identified as core goals of the DESC. They are authoritative and comprehensive papers that represent the consensus of the DESC. Key science papers can be proposed by any DESC member after consultation with the relevant working group conveners.
The author list on DESC Key Papers will begin with “The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration". After this, authors will be listed in alphabetical order. The “corresponding author" in a Key Paper will be an email address not associated with an individual scientist."
This would mean that any science release not necessarily tied to the core science cases of DESC, would be Key Papers, according to the strict wording.
This should be followed up with the Publication Board.