On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> writes: > > > 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 > > You can't add users manual citations to web page citations since many > cite both. Of course you can. That is what the word "citations" means. It does not mean "citing articles". Matt > >> > >> * 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/ > -- 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/
