Research software citation in the Data Citation Index: Current practices and implications for research software sharing and reuse

Park, Hyoungjoo; Wolfram, Dietmar

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2019.03.005

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“…Some efforts focus on formal citations. For example, bibliometric services like the Web of Science Data Citation Index (Park & Wolfram, 2019) have started to index software citations in addition to data. Yet empirical studies show that less than half of software mentions have formal citations (Howison & Bullard, 2016).…”

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Softcite dataset: A dataset of software mentions in biomedical and economic research publications

Cohoon

Lopez³

et al. 2021

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Software contributions to academic research are relatively invisible, especially to the formalized scholarly reputation system based on bibliometrics. In this article, we introduce a gold‐standard dataset of software mentions from the manual annotation of 4,971 academic PDFs in biomedicine and economics. The dataset is intended to be used for automatic extraction of software mentions from PDF format research publications by supervised learning at scale. We provide a description of the dataset and an extended discussion of its creation process, including improved text conversion of academic PDFs. Finally, we reflect on our challenges and lessons learned during the dataset creation, in hope of encouraging more discussion about creating datasets for machine learning use.

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Softcite dataset: A dataset of software mentions in biomedical and economic research publications

Cohoon

Lopez³

et al. 2021

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“…Software papers are an important component of the scientific research ecosystem, benefiting users in many domains and with widely varying levels of computational expertise. Furthermore, academic publications (and their citations) currently provide the primary means by which scientific software developers and maintainers gain recognition for their work (fortunately, efforts are currently under way to change this—for example, [ 38 , 39 ] show how code contributions can be used as directly citable scholarly works). Following these 10 simple rules will help to ensure your software papers are easy to use, scientifically rigorous, and resistant to future changes in technology.…”

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Ten simple rules for writing a paper about scientific software

Romano

Moore

2020

PLoS Comput Biol

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Papers describing software are an important part of computational fields of scientific research. These “software papers” are unique in a number of ways, and they require special consideration to improve their impact on the scientific community and their efficacy at conveying important information. Here, we discuss 10 specific rules for writing software papers, covering some of the different scenarios and publication types that might be encountered, and important questions from which all computational researchers would benefit by asking along the way.

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“…Even if software is published in a way that makes citation possible, it is often still not cited at all [9], or not cited according to the software citation principles, i.e., like any other research product [4], [10]. Also, software hardly ever publicizes its own references as citation data.…”

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Software and Dependencies in Research Citation Graphs

Druskat

2020

Comput. Sci. Eng.

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Software is essential for a lot of research, but it is not featured in citation graphs which have the potential to assign credit for software contributions. This is due to a traditionalistic focus on textual research products. In this paper, I propose an updated model for citation graphs that include software. This model takes into account intrinsic properties of software, and requirements for a robust system of software citation. I also give an outlook on future work to implement transitive credit, which is at the core of a fair system of academic citation which accounts for software on par with other research products.

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Research software citation in the Data Citation Index: Current practices and implications for research software sharing and reuse

Cited by 27 publications

References 20 publications

Softcite dataset: A dataset of software mentions in biomedical and economic research publications

Softcite dataset: A dataset of software mentions in biomedical and economic research publications

Ten simple rules for writing a paper about scientific software

Software and Dependencies in Research Citation Graphs

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