Reposted by Isaac Slaughter
'Code Contribution and Credit in Science' - new paper led by @evamaxfield.bsky.social w/ @isaacslaughter.bsky.social
1. We build a model that matches scientists (authors) with their GitHub accounts
2. We apply our model to ~140K paper-software repository pairs
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Code Contribution and Credit in Science
Abstract. Software development has become essential to scientific research, but its relationship to traditional metrics of scholarly credit remains poorly understood. We develop a dataset of approxima...
