[petsc-dev] PETSc statistics

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> 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.


Of course you can. That is what the word "citations" means. It does not
mean "citing articles".

   Matt


> >>
> >> * 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/
>



-- 
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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