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Software in Scholarly Discourse: A Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Author Scientometric Approach

Alexy Khrabrov, Fuqi Xu, Shahan Ali Memon, Rodrigo Costas, Huimin Xu, Puyu Yang, Frank Krüger �

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Outline

Our questions

Our approach , data and methods

Our results

Our future

Questions

What is the distribution of publications mentioning (or not) software across disciplines?�
How is different software used by researchers across their publications?�
What is the ‘proximity’ of scientific publications to the use of software? (ongoing)

Methodology

Method: Scientometric analysis of publications mentioning software

Datasets:

Software/Tools:

Data collection: Match CZI software mentions and SoftwareKG mentions with OpenAlex publications (DOI, PMCID)

Distribution publications with/out software across fields

Top level concepts (level=0)

Distribution of publications across Concepts

Top level concepts (level=0)

Distribution publications with/out software across fields

Top level=1

Top software per discipline

Trend of publications with software

Average number of software mentions per field

How is different software used by researchers across their publications?

Disambiguated authors in OpenAlex
Matrix of software pairs mentioned by more different authors (across multiple publications
E.g. Paper 1 - Author A - SPSS

Paper 2 - Author A - R

SPSS ---- R (1 author in common)