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 ☺

https://twitter.com/devopstom/status/1480470193457483780

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

https://twitter.com/NirantK/status/1480372231460966400

https://twitter.com/JamieTanna/status/1480457918310977541

https://twitter.com/Floppy/status/1480658548178698241

Woah I got 8 pages of results. Completely unexpected!

— 🕊 (@sephr) January 11, 2022

Woah I got 8 pages of results. Completely unexpected!

— 🕊 (@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

Documentation can be useful in research & learning. https://t.co/HT8VHKoVGZ

— Daniel Schildt (@autiomaa) January 11, 2022

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