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ajdawson / windspharm

A Python library for spherical harmonic computations on vector winds.
http://ajdawson.github.io/windspharm
MIT License
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Citing windspharm #40

Closed DamienIrving closed 8 years ago

DamienIrving commented 9 years ago

I'm writing a paper at the moment and would like to cite windspharm (along with the other software packages and libraries that I used). I was therefore wondering if you have thought about writing a paper about windspharm for the Journal of Open Research Software? This would great way for you to get academic credit for the hard work you've put into it, and would also make it very easy for authors like me to cite windspharm.

(You could probably write a separate paper for eofs too?)

ajdawson commented 9 years ago

Good suggestion, thanks Damien. In the mean time, I'll have a think about what you can do to cite it. I've answered this question before for eofs, I'll have to look up that discussion. I will get back to you.

ajdawson commented 9 years ago

I think in the past I've suggested the inclusion of an acknowledgement since a citation is difficult. Something like "The was performed using the windspharm software package available from http://ajdawson.github.io/windspharm/.

I like the idea of a software paper in JORS, I'll have to have a serious think about that. I'll inform you of any developments.

doutriaux1 commented 9 years ago

@ajdawson did you take a look at zenodo ? https://zenodo.org/ It's tightly integrated with github. We use it for UV-CDAT it even comes with little badges for your front page README. @DamienIrving what do you think?

ajdawson commented 8 years ago

Got a Zenodo DOI for v1.4: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.46766. I'm preparing a paper too, which would work well for future citations.

ajdawson commented 8 years ago

At last, I can finally close this one!

Please cite the JORS paper if you use windspharm in published research, and the software itself can be cited at a particular version using Zenodo.