[petsc-dev] PETSc statistics

[Barry Smith]

> On 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.

   No, you should multiply them together

> 
>>> 
>>> * 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/