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Astronomical software is now a fact of daily life for all hands-on members of our community. Purpose-built software for data reduction and modeling tasks becomes ever more critical as we handle larger amounts of data and simulations.…

Software is a fundamental pillar of modern scientiic research, not only in computer science, but actually across all elds and disciplines. However, there is a lack of adequate means to cite and reference software, for many reasons. An…

A large number of computational scientific research projects make use of open source software packages. However, the development process of such tools frequently differs from conventional software development; partly because of the nature…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Ivan Girotto , Axel Kohlmeyer , David Grellscheid , Shawn T. Brown

Datasets collecting software mentions from scholarly publications can potentially be used for research into the software that has been used in the published research, as well as into the practice of software citation. Recently, new software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Stephan Druskat , Neil P. Chue Hong , Sammie Buzzard , Olexandr Konovalov , Patrick Kornek

The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) contains 3000 metadata records about astrophysics research software and serves primarily as a registry of software, though it also can and does accept code deposit. Though the ASCL was started in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-27 Alice Allen

So far, the relationship between open science and software engineering expertise has largely focused on the open release of software engineering research insights and reproducible artifacts, in the form of open-access papers, open data, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Cynthia C. S. Liem , Andrew M. Demetriou

We are members of the Astrophysics Source Code Library's Advisory Committee and its editor-in-chief. The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL, ascl.net) is a successful initiative that advocates for open research software and provides an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-05 Lior Shamir , Bruce Berriman , Peter Teuben , Robert Nemiroff , Alice Allen

Meetings such as ADASS demonstrate that there is an enthusiasm for communication within the astronomical software community. However, the amount of information and experience that can flow around in the course of one, relatively short,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-03 Keith Shortridge

Knowledge about software used in scientific investigations is important for several reasons, for instance, to enable an understanding of provenance and methods involved in data handling. However, software is usually not formally cited, but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-23 David Schindler , Felix Bensmann , Stefan Dietze , Frank Krüger

Research data and software are widely accepted as an outcome of scientific work. However, in comparison to text-based publications, there is not yet an established process to assess and evaluate quality of research data and research…

This is position paper accepted to the Computational Science & Engineering Software Sustainability and Productivity Challenges (CSESSP Challenges) Workshop, sponsored by the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Kostadin Damevski , David Shepherd , Nicholas Kraft , Lori Pollock

The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL, http://ascl.net/) is an online registry of over 700 source codes that are of interest to astrophysicists, with more being added regularly. The ASCL actively seeks out codes as well as accepting…

Four years after the last LISA meeting, the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) finds itself in the middle of major changes to the infrastructure and contents of its database. In this paper we highlight a number of features of great…

The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free online registry of research codes; it is indexed by ADS and Web of Science and has over 1300 code entries. Its entries are increasingly used to cite software; citations have been…

The ability to cite software and give credit to its authors and contributors is increasingly important. While the number of online open-source software repositories has grown rapidly over the past few years, few are being properly cited…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Leshang Chen , Susan Davidson

Context: Interest in diversity in software development has significantly increased in recent years. Reporting on diversity in software projects can enhance user trust and assist regulators in evaluating adoption. Recent AI directives…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Joan Giner-Miguelez , Sergio Morales , Sergio Cobos , Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo , Robert Clariso , Jordi Cabot

In the last decades, scientific software has graduated from a hidden side-product to a first-class member of the astrophysics literature. We aim to quantify the activity and impact of software development for astronomy, using a systematic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Johannes Buchner

As computer systems become more and more complex, software and tools lag more and more behind. This is especially true for scientific software that often demands high performance, and thus needs to take advantage of parallelisms, memory…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Anne C. Elster