Scientific software resource navigation
This study investigates the use and citation of CiteSpace, a freely available tool for analysing, detecting and visualizing trends and patterns in scientific literature, by examining how it is used and cited among the articles published in English and Chinese core journals. Results show that CiteSpa...
How Scientists Really Use Computers?
Access to analytical code is essential for transparent and reproducible research. We review the state of code availability in ecology using a random sample of 346 nonmolecular articles published between 2015 and 2019 under mandatory or encouraged code-sharing policies. Our results call for urgent ac...
Evaluation of the quality of research software is a challenging and relevant issue, still not sufficiently addressed by the scientific community. Our contribution begins by defining, precisely but widely enough, the notions of research software and of its authors followed by a study of the evaluatio...
Among the entities involved in software citation, software source code requires special attention due to the role it plays in ensuring scientific reproducibility. To reference source code, we need identifiers that are not only unique and persistent, but also support integrity checking intrinsically....
The aim of this study is to explore the phenomenon of research software citation and, in particular, to draw attention to the increasing importance of this form of citation in scholarly communication. This research sheds light on the current status of formal software citation that is captured by cit...
Following the widespread digitalization of scholarship, software has become essential for research, but the current sociotechnical system of citation does not reflect this sufficiently. Citation provides context for research, but the current model for the respective research citation graphs does not...
In geodynamics as in other scientific areas, computation has become a core component of research, complementing field observation, laboratory analysis, experiment, and theory. Computational tools for data analysis, mapping, visualization, modeling, and simulation are essential for all aspects of the...
In most fields, computational models and data analysis have become a significant part of how research is performed, in addition to the more traditional theory and experiment. Mathematics is no exception to this trend. While the system of publication and credit for theory and experiment (journals and...
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...