<div dir="ltr"><div>COI: I am a paper co-author.<br></div><div><br>My $0.02 is that citing the paper is much more beneficial for the project, for the reason Leighton said: a highly cited paper does help justify work on the project to funding agencies as well as institutions. Speaking for myself, I have cited the paper in two funded grant applications, one which has resulted in some code contribution (the GAF parser) and one which hopefully will benefit Biopython as well (recently funded to do some work on GO, need to talk about that in the dev list). As Leighton said, funders & bosses judge importance by citation count. While Biopython is not directly funded, some of us manage to spend some time on it using our own grants.<br><br><br></div><div>To facilitate reproducibility, a major version citation is sufficient, IMO, as those are archived. If you used some non-major version on github, you can fork/clone the version of your liking to your own github, assign it a DOI yourself, and cite that. For reasons mentioned, I would advocate citing both the paper and the DOI you have assigned. <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:35 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.buhtz@posteo.jp" target="_blank">c.buhtz@posteo.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2015-12-22 16:38 João Rodrigues <<a href="mailto:j.p.g.l.m.rodrigues@gmail.com">j.p.g.l.m.rodrigues@gmail.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
<span class="">> What's better: citing the paper that describes the algorithm(s) or<br>
> the pull request that fixed a typo in the documentation?<br>
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</span>The latter because a DOI/Reference is about reproducibility.<br>
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