[EN] ByteSized RSE: the Citation File Format - Jason Maassen

This ByteSized RSE episode talks about the Citation File Format (CFF) https://citation-file-format.github.io/ , created in 2017 to promote the inclusion of software in scientific papers. My guest is Jason Maassen from the eScience Center in the Netherlands.

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Background:

• Early scientific Journals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_des_sçavans and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society 
• The "Garfield" Index (impact factors) original paper: https://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/science1955.pdf 
• overview of impact factors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor 

CFF/Software Citations

• https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.86 the Force11 paper on principles of software citation
• https://www.software.ac.uk/publication/how-cite-and-describe-software a blog post from the Software Sustainability Institute
• https://citation-file-format.github.io/ The CFF project on GitHub
• https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-citation-files GitHub documentation on CFF
• https://zenodo.org/records/10650644 Stephan Druskat's paper on CFF