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A more useful option is to use Zenodo to provide a DOI for a GitHub repository. https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-repository/referenci

A more useful option is to use Zenodo to provide a DOI for a GitHub repository. https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-repository/referencing-and-citing-content https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-r...

foldr 3y ago
That doesn't really help. People already know how to paste the URL for a piece of software into a paper. It's more that it doesn't count for anything (because it's a piece of software and not a paper).
- Symbiote 3y ago
  It does help, as the DOI system provides the tracking needed to count citations and measure the "effectiveness" of the researcher.
  - foldr 3y ago
    Such citations are not valued by $FIELD (for most values of FIELD). Only citations of published papers count.