improve "Cite as" info

[brainwane]

What's the problem this feature will solve? In order for scholars to properly cite the software they use and thus show academia how important it is, it's useful for there to be a scholarly citation available for PyPI. Right now, http://citeas.org/cite/PyPI ends up pointing at https://pypi.org/project/cite/ and thus to Einstein's paper on relativity. It would be nice if we gave a more relevant scholarly citation.

Describe the solution you'd like I think we should do a little research to find whether there's a research paper somewhere about PyPI, and then contact CiteAs -- and/or embed metadata about the paper's DOI in our relevant HTTP responses or headers -- to correct the mis-citation.

[di]

Looking at this now, here's what I see at http://citeas.org/cite/PyPI:

Sorry! We weren't able to figure out a citation for this research product.

Here is more information on where we look, and some tips on how to modify the citation suggestions for your software projects.

Please let us know about any bugs by submitting feedback through our form or our GitHub issues page. We'll get them fixed!

Is there anything for us to do here still?

[hugovk]

Perhaps this would be a good paper for citing? Would probably be wise to check with the authors first:

An Empirical Analysis of the Python Package Index (PyPI) Ethan Bommarito, Michael Bommarito

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11073

Alternatively, a new paper could be submitted to the Journal of Open Source Software:

• https://joss.theoj.org/about