> On 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.
No, you should multiply them together > >>> >>> * 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/
