[petsc-dev] PETSc statistics

[Jed Brown]

Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Dave May <dave.mayhem23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a place where I can find up-to-date statistics about the PETSc
>> user base?
>>
>> I was thinking about these metrics:
>> * average monthly downloads
>>
>
> This has email statistics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01122
> Its very hard to get download statistics, since we cannot get them from
> Bitbucket, and we are at a lot of computing centers. However,
> last time we tried I think it was 400 downloads/month.
>
>
>> * total citations (looks like 1518 from google scholar)
>>
>
> Here, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MtzzT2MAAAAJ, it says 4500

You can't add users manual citations to web page citations since many
cite both.

>>
>> * any estimates of the number of actual users
>>
>
> I usually say tens of thousands. Our users meeting attracts 100+ presenters
> each year.
>
>    Matt
>
>
>> Any other metrics would be welcome as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Dave
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
>
> http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/
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