>>>>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:42:59 +1000 (EST), >>>>> Gordon K Smyth (GKS) wrote:
> On Tue, June 14, 2005 12:49 am, Thomas Lumley said: >> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Gordon K Smyth wrote: >> >>> This is just a note that R would get a lot more citations if the >>> recommended citation was an article in a recognised journal or from a >>> recognised publisher. >>> >> >> This is unfortunately true, but R is *not* an article or a book, it is a >> piece of software. I don't think I'm the only person who thinks it is >> counterproductive in the long run to encourage users to cite an article >> that they probably haven't read instead of citing the software they >> actually used. >> >> Jan's suggestion of the Journal of Statistical Software might provide a >> solution, since JSS *does* publish software. >> >> -thomas > In the biology world, it is common to publish an article > announcing a software project, and to cite that. The referees of > the article are expected to try out and comment on the software. > This gives the authors credit, and ensures that both the article > and the software have been peer refereed, at least to a limited > extent. How do you cite books in this world, or to but the question in another way: How do you make sure a book is peer-reviewd? After all it is quite easy to become a "publisher" and publish ones own books. Many university departments I know are registered ISBN publishers (including our department). Must be hard to distinguish "real" books from others, I guess. Fritz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
