On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:23 PM Barry Smith <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > > On Jun 6, 2017, at 12:47 PM, Jed Brown <j...@jedbrown.org> wrote: > > > > Matthew Knepley <knep...@gmail.com> writes: > > > >> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Dave May <dave.mayhe...@gmail.com> > 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 That's weak sauce. You've got to use Ackermann(website_citations,manual_citations). Jeff > > > > > >>> > >>> * 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/ > > -- Jeff Hammond jeff.scie...@gmail.com http://jeffhammond.github.io/