<p dir="ltr">Having all citations concentrated in one paper with all the major contributors helps tracking citation data, which helps those major contributors and OBF in future funding ventures. Further, a new release does not change the entire code base, so if you were to use Bio.PDB in say release X and Y, where there weren't any changes to this module, you'd cite two different DOIs, which wouldn't make any sense from any point of view. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Also, Peter's paper is not *his* paper about the software. It's the entire team, or almost, on that paper and it describes the different modules and their purpose and functionality. </p>
<p dir="ltr">What's better: citing the paper that describes the algorithm(s) or the pull request that fixed a typo in the documentation? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers, </p>
<p dir="ltr">João <br>
</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">A ter, 22/12/2015, 16:05, <<a href="mailto:c.buhtz@posteo.jp">c.buhtz@posteo.jp</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2015-12-22 15:10 Peter Cock <<a href="mailto:p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com" target="_blank">p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> You can just say Biopython version 1.66 (for example) and<br>
> cite the paper Cock et al 2009 and its DOI:<br>
<br>
I need to cite the software not your paper about the software.<br>
It is unscientific to do it like that. And somebody could say I just<br>
want to say "thank you" in the way to increase your ImpfactFactor.<br>
<br>
If there is no DOI I will just name the main website an the release<br>
identifier (version number).<br>
<br>
> Using Zenodo.org we'd have to register a DOI for each<br>
> release, which does not seem that useful.<br>
<br>
Exactly that would be useful and what DOIs are for - especially for a<br>
scientific software like BioPython.<br>
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