In-code citation practices in open research software libraries

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Highlights：

• In-code citation practices in open research software libraries remain unexplored.

• This paper studies the availability and consistency of in-code citations.

• Findings suggest that most of the libraries studied use at least one.

• Citations were missing important information and had inconsistencies.

• Few libraries had a systematic method for linking references and in-code citations.

摘要

•In-code citation practices in open research software libraries remain unexplored.•This paper studies the availability and consistency of in-code citations.•Findings suggest that most of the libraries studied use at least one.•Citations were missing important information and had inconsistencies.•Few libraries had a systematic method for linking references and in-code citations.

论文关键词：Research software,In-code citation,Software citation,Open software,Citation networks

论文评审过程：Received 10 August 2020, Revised 3 January 2021, Accepted 26 January 2021, Available online 5 February 2021, Version of Record 5 February 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101139