Decide on how to count software mentions 🧮

[sdruskat]

What do we have?

If #1 is finished, we should have a dataset with unified names (identifiers) for a software package that may have been used across many different papers.

The issue

We don't know how to count mentions, i.e.

• do we count software usage per work (software is counted once per paper), or
• do we count software usage per mention (software is counted however many times it is mentioned per paper).

For example, if these are the software mentions for a single paper: ['Ribo', 'Ribo', 'Ribo', 'Seq'] (cell I28)

• is Ribo counted once? n = 1
• is Ribo counted thrice? n = 3

What do we really need?

• A decision on how to count.

How can we achieve this?

Per discussion poll in this comment.

[olexandr-konovalov]

I suggest Per work. That matches what happens when one counts number of citations of a paper - even if citation [n] appears many times in the next, this will be one citations of the Nth item in the list of references.

[sdruskat]

Let's do a poll!

• If you think that we should count mentions per work, react to this comment with 👍. (R, R, R = 1)
• If you think we should count every single mention, react to this comment with 👎. (R, R, R = 3)

You can react by clicking the smiley button in the upper right hand corner of this comment.

[npch]

The decision is mentions per work - this has been added in 1b809fc