TY - GEN
T1 - Software Citation in Theory and Practice
AU - Katz, Daniel S.
AU - Chue Hong, Neil P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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 books, often monographs) has developed and has become an expected part of the culture, how research is shared and how candidates for hiring, promotion are evaluated, software (and data) do not have the same history. A group working as part of the FORCE11 community developed a set of principles for software citation that fit software into the journal citation system, allow software to be published and then cited, and there are now over 50,000 DOIs that have been issued for software. However, some challenges remain, including: promoting the idea of software citation to developers and users; collaborating with publishers to ensure that systems collect and retain required metadata; ensuring that the rest of the scholarly infrastructure, particularly indexing sites, include software; working with communities so that software efforts “count”; and understanding how best to cite software that has not been published.
AB - 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 books, often monographs) has developed and has become an expected part of the culture, how research is shared and how candidates for hiring, promotion are evaluated, software (and data) do not have the same history. A group working as part of the FORCE11 community developed a set of principles for software citation that fit software into the journal citation system, allow software to be published and then cited, and there are now over 50,000 DOIs that have been issued for software. However, some challenges remain, including: promoting the idea of software citation to developers and users; collaborating with publishers to ensure that systems collect and retain required metadata; ensuring that the rest of the scholarly infrastructure, particularly indexing sites, include software; working with communities so that software efforts “count”; and understanding how best to cite software that has not been published.
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - Credit
KW - Software citation
KW - Software identifiers
KW - Software metadata
KW - Software repositories
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050646790&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85050646790&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-96418-8_34
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-96418-8_34
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85050646790
SN - 9783319964171
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 289
EP - 296
BT - Mathematical Software – ICMS 2018 - 6th International Conference, Proceedings
A2 - Davenport, James H.
A2 - Labahn, George
A2 - Urban, Josef
A2 - Kauers, Manuel
PB - Springer
T2 - 6th International Conference on Mathematical Software, ICMS 2018
Y2 - 24 July 2018 through 27 July 2018
ER -