As many research papers in astronomy have been written since the beginning of the 21st century as had been written previously. This exponential growth has been accompanied by substantial changes in the structure of astrophysics research, which organizations perform it and where they are located. Using data from the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System/Science Explorer (ADS/SciX) we have obtained an article number and citation based set of metrics as a function of the institutional affiliation of the first author; nearly every organization which has produced recent astronomy research is included. We use these data to examine changes in where astronomy research is being done. We demonstrate how to create custom rankings for the organizations. We develop a dashboard of key performance indicators (KPI) to examine the relative and absolute changes in the research performance for each of the 1949 organizations which have produced at least one first authored, refereed astronomy journal article since 1997. We also present KPI dashboards for 65 countries and three regions.

翻译：自21世纪初以来，天文学领域产出的研究论文数量已与以往所有时期的总和相当。这一指数级增长伴随着天体物理研究结构、执行机构及其地理分布的显著变化。利用史密森尼/NASA天体物理数据系统/科学探索者（ADS/SciX）的数据，我们基于第一作者所属机构构建了一套涵盖论文数量与被引次数的指标集，几乎囊括了所有近期从事天文学研究的机构。我们借助这些数据审视天文学研究格局的地域变迁，并展示了如何为各机构创建定制化排名。我们开发了一个关键绩效指标（KPI）仪表盘，用于分析自1997年以来至少发表过一篇第一作者、经同行评议的天文学期刊论文的1949个机构在研究绩效上的相对与绝对变化。此外，我们还为65个国家和三个地区呈现了KPI仪表盘。