Software Citation Implementation Challenges
Abstract
The main output of the FORCE11 Software Citation working group (https://www.force11.org/group/software-citation-working-group) was a paper on software citation principles (https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.86) published in September 2016. This paper laid out a set of six high-level principles for software citation (importance, credit and attribution, unique identification, persistence, accessibility, and specificity) and discussed how they could be used to implement software citation in the scholarly community. In a series of talks and other activities, we have promoted software citation using these increasingly accepted principles. At the time the initial paper was published, we also provided guidance and examples on how to make software citable, though we now realize there are unresolved problems with that guidance. The purpose of this document is to provide an explanation of current issues impacting scholarly attribution of research software, organize updated implementation guidance, and identify where best practices and solutions are still needed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1905.08674,
title = {Software Citation Implementation Challenges},
author = {Daniel S. Katz and Daina Bouquin and Neil P. Chue Hong and Jessica Hausman and Catherine Jones and Daniel Chivvis and Tim Clark and Mercè Crosas and Stephan Druskat and Martin Fenner and Tom Gillespie and Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran and Morane Gruenpeter and Ted Habermann and Robert Haines and Melissa Harrison and Edwin Henneken and Lorraine Hwang and Matthew B. Jones and Alastair A. Kelly and David N. Kennedy and Katrin Leinweber and Fernando Rios and Carly B. Robinson and Ilian Todorov and Mingfang Wu and Qian Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.08674},
year = {2019}
}