[petsc-dev] PETSc statistics

[Jeff Hammond]

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:23 PM Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> > 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


That's weak sauce. You've got to use
Ackermann(website_citations,manual_citations).

Jeff

>

>
> >
> >>>
> >>> * 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/
>
> --
Jeff Hammond
jeff.science at gmail.com
http://jeffhammond.github.io/
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