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| Paper: |
It’s Your Software! Get It Cited the Way You Want! |
| Volume: |
538, ADASS XXXII |
| Page: |
261 |
| Authors: |
Alice Allen |
| DOI: |
10.26624/BVDE1261 |
| Abstract: |
Are others using software you’ve written in their research and citing it
as you want it to be cited? Software can be cited in different ways, some good, and
some not good at all for tracking and counting citations in indexers such as the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and Clarivate’s Web of Science. Generally, these resources
need to match citations to resources, such as journal articles or software records, that
they ingest. This contribution covers common reasons as to why a code might not be
cited well (in a trackable/countable way), which citation methods are trackable, how
to specify this information for your software, and where this information should be
placed. It also covers standard software metadata files, how to create them, and how
to use them. Creating a metadata file, such as a CITATION.cff or codemeta.json,
and adding it to the root of your code repo is easy to do with the ASCL’s metadata file
creation overlay, and will help out anyone wanting to give you credit for your computational method, whether it’s a huge carefully-written and tested package, or a short
quick-and-dirty-but-oh-so-useful code. |
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