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CiteAs: Better Software through Sociotechnical Change for Better Software Citation

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CSCW '21 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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Research increasingly depends on software, yet software work is often relatively invisible to the reputation economy shaping research careers. To address this, we demonstrate CiteAs, a system designed to improve incentives for high-quality software work by altering citation behaviors in the loosely governed sociotechnical system producing research software. CiteAs has two goals: first, to encourage those producing research software to make clear requests for citations most valuable to them; and second, to encourage users of research software to cite software more and follow the citations requested by the developer. CiteAs is implemented as a specialized search engine at https://citeas.org/ that explains itself and instructs better practices. Ultimately we hope that CiteAs will increase the visibility of research software, improving incentives for the software work needed to advance research.

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CSCW '21 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

October 2021

370 pages

ISBN:9781450384797

DOI:10.1145/3462204

Editors:
Jeremy Birnholtz
Northwestern University, USA
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Luigina Ciolfi
University College Cork, Ireland
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Sharon Ding
Fudan University, China
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Susan Fussell
Cornell University, USA
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Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Snap, Inc., USA
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Sean Munson
University of Washington, USA
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Irina Shklovski
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Mor Naaman
Cornell Tech, USA

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Istrate AFisher JYang XMoraw KLi KLi DKlein M(2024)Scientific Software Citation Intent Classification Using Large Language ModelsNatural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs10.1007/978-3-031-65794-8_6(80-99)Online publication date: 15-Aug-2024
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Garijo DMénager HHwang LTrisovic AHucka MMorrell TAllen A(2022)Nine best practices for research software registries and repositoriesPeerJ Computer Science10.7717/peerj-cs.10238(e1023)Online publication date: 8-Aug-2022
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Du CCohoon JLopez PHowison J(2022)Understanding progress in software citation: a study of software citation in the CORD-19 corpusPeerJ Computer Science10.7717/peerj-cs.10228(e1022)Online publication date: 25-Jul-2022
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