On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Dave May <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Is there a place where I can find up-to-date statistics about the PETSc > user base? > > I was thinking about these metrics: > * average monthly downloads > This has email statistics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01122 Its very hard to get download statistics, since we cannot get them from Bitbucket, and we are at a lot of computing centers. However, last time we tried I think it was 400 downloads/month. > * total citations (looks like 1518 from google scholar) > Here, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MtzzT2MAAAAJ, it says 4500 > > * any estimates of the number of actual users > I usually say tens of thousands. Our users meeting attracts 100+ presenters each year. Matt > Any other metrics would be welcome as well. > > Thanks, > Dave > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/
