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Expand Up @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ necessarily the same people as the developers and maintainers of our
software implementation, and we'd like to reward both appropriately with
citations.

Additionally, for things like tenure and promotion and grants, often
it is the case that only peer reviewed articles count. In this case,
having citations accrue to those articles is a good idea!

So, rather than directly citing our tarballs or repositories (see
`F1000 Research
<http://blog.f1000research.com/2013/10/11/open-access-software-our-recent-software-repository-collaborations/>`__
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So my thought here is that any tool that uses a research algorithm or
data structure developed by others should output citation information
for that other work.
for that other work. This follows the advice given by Sarah Callaghan
to `"cite what you use"
<http://citingbytes.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/cite-what-you-use.html>`__.

A specific example we're planning: someone is porting some abandoned
thesisware to khmer. The citation information will specify both khmer
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be first...)

--titus

p.s. Thanks to Michael Crusoe and Varsha Khodiyar for reading a preview
of this blog post and giving me feedback!

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