astropy
10k citation action items
Should thank our users and ask them to join in as contributors.
- @Cadair offered to put a banner on Astropy docs.
- Encourage institutions that provided support (see Institutional Support at the bottom of https://www.astropy.org/credits.html) to do press releases (@eteq @adrn @crawfordsm @taldcroft @cmarmo @arlissc and please ping anyone I missed here)
We could also ask Moore and NASA if they were interested in doing some press. @crawfordsm ?
Has anyone asked the communications person at NumFocus? I can do that if noone else has.
Please send me an email and I can start the conversations on the NASA side. It's unlikely to raise to the level of NASA press release, but at the very least, we can likely highlight it as an Open Science success story.
To add a little bit more context, one of the astropy papers (I don't actually know which one) is closing in on reaching 10,000 citations. This is a "big deal" and apparently there are very few astro papers that have reached this milestone. Maybe @adrn can provide more inspiration and details for the copy of any press release.
The first astropy paper! I can draft something and circulate for our various institution press offices to look at.
Has anyone asked the communications person at NumFocus?
I don't think so (but I am also not very active there). @kelle , please go ahead. Thanks!
Hi! I'm Kelby, the Digital Marketing Specialist at NumFOCUS. This is so exciting! What are you looking to get help with from the NF side? Would you like us to write a release for you all to share? Or do you need help amplifying? I'm happy to help, but I just want to get a grasp on what you need. Congrats on this accomplishment!
@kelbylorenz Hi, thanks! It would be awesome if you could draft a release, sure! Also help amplifying once it is posted. Let me know if you need any other information!
This is a "big deal" and apparently there are very few astro papers that have reached this milestone.
If you believe ADS, the Astropy paper is the thirteenth most cited in their collection of peer-reviewed astronomy articles, just slightly above Stephen Hawking.
Happy to help! If you all wouldn't mind putting together a bullet list of the important info you want to highlight, I can draft something for you all to look over! Thank you!
@kelbylorenz Sorry for the delay! Others: feel free to add to this list — anyone on astropy-core-maintainers should have edit access.
to get the relevant data....
import ads
import numpy as np
import tqdm
citing_papers = ads.SearchQuery(q="citations(bibcode:2013A&A...558A..33A)", rows=10000, fl=['citation_count', 'author', 'year', 'id', 'bibcode', 'pubdate'], max_pages=100)
dates = [art.pubdate for art in tqdm.tqdm(citing_papers)]
# hacky
dates_arr = np.array([x.replace('00', '01') for x in dates], dtype='datetime64[D]')
(note that many pubs lack month-of-publication)
We're at 9976 as of now, and the latest rate is ~1900/yr (though climbing). So, roughly 5 days? We're probably at it now, but ADS doesn't update entirely automatically, iirc.
So... what do we do now? I mean, we just got another award, so would be nice to throw this in too while fire is hot.
I was waiting for @kelbylorenz to draft something, but I could draft a press release instead -- I'll do it over the weekend and ping here.
OK actually I had 12 minutes right now, so I drafted a press release in the same google doc as above: here
This is sort of written from the perspective of the project, but we might want it to be third person instead. I could hand it to our communications team for editing and feedback, if others agree. Since we crossed 10,000 a few days ago, this is mildly time sensitive (thanks @astrofrog and @pllim for noticing :)) @astropy/coordinators
Thanks, @adrn ! CoCo not meeting for another 2 weeks but I have alerted them of this.
NumFOCUS press release is out: https://numfocus.medium.com/astropy-paper-reaches-10-000-citations-276421fa8681
I am putting it on the website: https://github.com/astropy/astropy.github.com/pull/630
We done here? Thanks, all!