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If you are a scientist and a programmer, you could make a software useful for others, publish an article about it, and provide it cost-free under the condition
by Viliam1234 7y ago
If you are a scientist and a programmer, you could make a software useful for others, publish an article about it, and provide it cost-free under the condition that when people use it for research they have to cite the article in their paper. This is how you could get lots of citations.
- jvanderbot 7y agoMany of the best-used robotics packages are handled in this way. The ROS paper itself has thousands of citations. But it might be tough to get tenure doing that, and few jobs will support those efforts outside robotics startups or research labs, and often proprietary is the law of the land in those domains. And outside tech R and D, where software still rules but isn't a core competency, you'll likely never have success with this model, sadly