GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution

• Main Authors: WATTANAKRIENGKRAI, Supatsara, CHINTHANET, Bodin, HATA, Hideaki, KULA, Raula, TREUDE, Christoph, GUO, Jin, MATSUMOTO, Kenichi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Software documentation; Open science; Open access; Traceability; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8789; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9792/viewcontent/jss21.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Traceability between published scientific breakthroughs and their implementation is essential, especially in the case of open-source scientific software which implements bleeding-edge science in its code. However, aligning the link between GitHub repositories and academic papers can prove difficult,...