Check if your code is cited in academic works

I am a vain man. For a few years, I've been tracking academic papers which cite my blog posts.

Recently, someone let me know that they'd found one of GitHub repos in a paper they'd read. It hadn't even occurred to me to search for those!

So, shove your GitHub URl into Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=github.com/edent - and you'll see if any repos have made it into academia.

Have you spotted any of your code in interesting places? Let me know in the comments ☺

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Leigh Dodds

@ldodds

Discovered that someone built a tool for making SPARQL more usable by building on my sparql-doc tool:

Paper: ceur-ws.org/Vol-2721/paper…

Terence Eden is on Mastodon

@edent

Well worth searching your GitHub URL with Google Scholar.
E.g. scholar.google.com/scholar?q=gith…
Great way to find out if your code has made it into any academic publications. pic.x.com/fpysrjhws6

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Simon Willison

@simonw

Thanks to this tip I just found out Datasette gets a mention in this academic paper! "What Else Is New? Open Data Users Need to Know What’s Changed" computer.org/csdl/magazine/…

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@sephr

Replying to @edent@edent Woah I got 8 pages of results. Completely unexpected!

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Daniel Schildt

@autiomaa

Google Scholar search results scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&… found one academic reference to my list of companies that use GitHub. github.com/d2s/companies/…

Documentation can be useful in research & learning.

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Pratyush Mittal

@faltoo

Wow! Screener.in has been cited in at least 21 papers: scholar.google.com/scholar?start=…

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