In the process of transforming science cases into a viable and affordable design for a novel instrument, there is the problem of how to gauge their scientific impact, especially when they end up in competing top level requirements that can be incompatible with each other. This research note presents a case study for scientific impact of the integral field spectrograph MUSE in terms of number of refereed publications from 2014 to 2024 as a figure of merit, broken down by different research areas. The analysis is based on the Basic ESO Publication Statistics service (BEPS) and NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS).

翻译：在将科学案例转化为新型仪器的可行且经济的设计过程中，如何衡量其科学影响是一个关键问题，尤其是当这些案例最终导致相互冲突的顶层设计要求时。本研究以积分场光谱仪MUSE为例，以2014年至2024年间经同行评审的论文数量作为衡量指标，按不同研究领域细分，评估其科学影响。该分析基于欧洲南方天文台基础出版物统计服务（BEPS）和美国国家航空航天局天体物理数据系统（ADS）。