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 ☺
One of my blog posts wound up being cited in a proper bit of research https://t.co/G5NAQb7gg8 https://t.co/AmSGfEGvOO pic.twitter.com/iVMV7EaXd5
— Tom O'Connor (@devopstom) January 10, 2022
Discovered that someone built a tool for making SPARQL more usable by building on my sparql-doc tool:
Paper: https://t.co/zUEgz8hFzC https://t.co/iBbs7uRdTW
— Leigh Dodds (@ldodds) January 10, 2022
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" https://t.co/ZKbfk8p6g8 https://t.co/fzxmCVZ9dj
— Simon Willison (@simonw) January 10, 2022
Ohh wow. Thanks for bringing this up - looks like my Github is way more times than 0, which is what I'd expected.
And at great places like ACL too! pic.twitter.com/NfFWzvLC9Q
— Nirant (@NirantK) January 10, 2022
Nice, I've found one of my own projects in this which is pretty cool 🤓 (https://t.co/MlCvlAZGNh) https://t.co/HgAXVHYn9O
— Jamie Tanna | www.jvt.me (@JamieTanna) January 10, 2022
Well I never, I found one for mine, a chap’s dissertation on energy monitoring. How lovely.
— James Smith 💾 (@Floppy) January 10, 2022
Woah I got 8 pages of results. Completely unexpected!
— Eli Grey (@sephr) January 11, 2022
Woah I got 8 pages of results. Completely unexpected!
— Eli Grey (@sephr) January 11, 2022
Google Scholar search results https://t.co/Et50z3qlCs found one academic reference to my list of companies that use GitHub. https://t.co/FxJGlGZxz0
— Daniel Schildt (@autiomaa) January 11, 2022
Documentation can be useful in research & learning. https://t.co/HT8VHKoVGZ
Wow! https://t.co/aoKzlaQTnz has been cited in at least 21 papers: https://t.co/wGz54Y5cdU https://t.co/S8kbiw2AjP
— Pratyush Mittal (@faltoo) January 11, 2022
@Edent Nice! Apparently someone published something 2 weeks ago, referencing my project 😁 I can't access it though haha ( 💰 )