Software plays an important role in the advancement of science. Software developers, users, and funding agencies have deep interests in the impact of software on science. This study investigates the use and impact of software by examining how software is mentioned and cited among 9548 articles publi...
科学软件资源导航
Scientific software resource navigation
Code is increasingly central to ecological research but often remains unpublished and insufficiently recognized. Making code available allows analyses to be more easily reproduced and can facilitate research by other scientists. We evaluate journal handling of code, discuss barriers to its publicati...
Software is a critical part of modern research and yet there is little support across the scholarly ecosystem for its acknowledgement and citation. Inspired by the activities of the FORCE11 working group focused on data citation, this document summarizes the recommendations of the FORCE11 Software C...
Software in the scientific literature: Problems with seeing, finding, and using software mentioned in the biology literature
Software is increasingly crucial to scholarship, yet the visibility and usefulness of software in the scientific record are in question. Just as with data, the visibility of software in publications is related to incentives to share software in reusable ways, and so promote efficient science. In thi...
Creators of computer programs that underpin experiments don’t always get their due — so the website Depsy is trying to track the impact of research code.