<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Dave May <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.mayhem23@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.mayhem23@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Is there a place where I can find up-to-date statistics about the PETSc user base?</div><div><br></div><div>I was thinking about these metrics:</div><div>* average monthly downloads</div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This has email statistics: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01122">https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01122</a></div><div>Its very hard to get download statistics, since we cannot get them from Bitbucket, and we are at a lot of computing centers. However,</div><div>last time we tried I think it was 400 downloads/month.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>* total citations (looks like 1518 from google scholar)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MtzzT2MAAAAJ">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MtzzT2MAAAAJ</a>, it says 4500</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> </div><div>* any estimates of the number of actual users</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I usually say tens of thousands. Our users meeting attracts 100+ presenters each year.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Any other metrics would be welcome as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div> Dave</div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/" target="_blank">http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/</a><br></div></div></div>
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