<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Dave May <<a href="mailto:dave.mayhem23@gmail.com">dave.mayhem23@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hello,<br>
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>> Is there a place where I can find up-to-date statistics about the PETSc<br>
>> user base?<br>
>><br>
>> I was thinking about these metrics:<br>
>> * average monthly downloads<br>
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> This has email statistics: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01122" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.<wbr>01122</a><br>
> Its very hard to get download statistics, since we cannot get them from<br>
> Bitbucket, and we are at a lot of computing centers. However,<br>
> last time we tried I think it was 400 downloads/month.<br>
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>> * total citations (looks like 1518 from google scholar)<br>
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> Here, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MtzzT2MAAAAJ" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/<wbr>citations?user=MtzzT2MAAAAJ</a>, it says 4500<br>
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</span>You can't add users manual citations to web page citations since many<br>
cite both.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of course you can. That is what the word "citations" means. It does not mean "citing articles".</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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>> * any estimates of the number of actual users<br>
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> I usually say tens of thousands. Our users meeting attracts 100+ presenters<br>
> each year.<br>
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> Matt<br>
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>> Any other metrics would be welcome as well.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>> Dave<br>
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> --<br>
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their<br>
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their<br>
> experiments lead.<br>
> -- Norbert Wiener<br>
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> <a href="http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.caam.rice.edu/~<wbr>mk51/</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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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