On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Paul T. Bauman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe relevant pubs/bibtex could be added alongside the PETSc ones on the > PETSc webpage to help this? (Shame on me, but is there a relevant GAMG > publication?) It doesn't help with the disingenuous researcher not willing > to go the extra step of proper citation, but would certainly help someone > like me that wants to do right. E.g. in this case, I would specifically > cite GAMG as well as PETSc. > I am writing one today as a matter of fact, with Peter, Toby and Garth. I will need to remember to get this into the web page when it is accepted. > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > On Jul 15, 2015, at 6:53 PM, Mark Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Where is this list of (known) apps? >> >> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/publications/index.html >> >> but we don't keep it up to date anymore because it is a manual process to >> find new publications and add their bibtex entries. Thus we mostly just >> point to google scholar for recent stuff. >> >> Verifying someone uses a particular part of PETSc (like GAMG) is >> difficult because you need to locate their publication and see if they >> mention it in the text (which often they will not do) or if they sent some >> email and mentioned using it. I've played with the idea of PETSc programs >> automatically sending back what solvers they use but for some reason some >> PETSc developers get paranoid about collecting this kind of information :-). >> >> Just count the number of email threads that have GAMG in the text and >> give that number to David Brown :-) >> >> >> >> Barry >> >> > Thanks, >> > >> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Mark Adams <[email protected]> writes: >> > >> > > Do we have any data with respect to the number of PETSc users? >> Better yet >> > > number of GAMG users? >> > >> > Mailing list statistics, downstream software packages, papers, and >> > commits. >> > >> > We don't spy on users, so just measure products that are made public. >> > >> >> >
