Software and Dependencies in Research Citation Graphs
Stephan Druskat
TL;DR
This paper proposes a new directed graph model for research citation graphs that incorporates software, addressing current limitations and enabling applications like transitive credit to better reflect software's role in research.
Contribution
It introduces a novel graph model that integrates software into research citation networks and discusses challenges and applications of this approach.
Findings
A directed graph model for software in citation networks
Identification of challenges in implementing software citation graphs
Potential applications like transitive credit for software
Abstract
Following the widespread digitalization of scholarship, software has become essential for research, but the current sociotechnical system of citation does not reflect this sufficiently. Citation provides context for research, but the current model for the respective research citation graphs does not integrate software. In this paper, I develop a directed graph model to alleviate this, describe challenges for its instantiation, and give an outlook of useful applications of research citation graphs, including transitive credit.
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