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by Symbiote 1034 days ago
A more useful option is to use Zenodo to provide a DOI for a GitHub repository.

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-r...
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foldr 1034 days ago
That doesn't really help. People already know how to paste the URL for a piece of software into a paper. It's more that it doesn't count for anything (because it's a piece of software and not a paper).
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Symbiote 1033 days ago
It does help, as the DOI system provides the tracking needed to count citations and measure the "effectiveness" of the researcher.
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foldr 1033 days ago
Such citations are not valued by $FIELD (for most values of FIELD). Only citations of published papers count.
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