Redish Lab on Nostr: npub19d9p0…kf02p npub1a7mgd…gj0p9 npub18ur4k…vk9ge It is not true at all that ...
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It is not true at all that people "never get career credit for software they wrote." I know several cases where people got both explicit and implicit career credit for code they wrote.
For example, I can tell you that there were at least a few dozen cases where when people met me, they told me they used my software all the time.* I remember one senior faculty who only listened to my science because they recognized my name from the code their lab depended on.
In our annual merit review document, there is a space for us to include contributions/service to the community such as software design or maintenance. I know that my software* was an important piece of "service" when I went up for tenure. (It was mentioned in several of the letters.)
And in the new NIH biosketch (not so new anymore), you are supposed to list 5 "contributions to science" and under those, you are absolutely able to include software contributions. (And people do.)
* I wrote one of the early spike sorters called "MClust". At one time it was used for all tetrode spike sorting. I know it is still used by lots of people.
That being said, I do wish that we had a tradition of counting code citations. That's my one regret code-wise - that I didn't write a paper to cite - so I can't numerically count all those (MClust, A. D. Redish) citations. But I know that I got career credit for it.
It is not true at all that people "never get career credit for software they wrote." I know several cases where people got both explicit and implicit career credit for code they wrote.
For example, I can tell you that there were at least a few dozen cases where when people met me, they told me they used my software all the time.* I remember one senior faculty who only listened to my science because they recognized my name from the code their lab depended on.
In our annual merit review document, there is a space for us to include contributions/service to the community such as software design or maintenance. I know that my software* was an important piece of "service" when I went up for tenure. (It was mentioned in several of the letters.)
And in the new NIH biosketch (not so new anymore), you are supposed to list 5 "contributions to science" and under those, you are absolutely able to include software contributions. (And people do.)
* I wrote one of the early spike sorters called "MClust". At one time it was used for all tetrode spike sorting. I know it is still used by lots of people.
That being said, I do wish that we had a tradition of counting code citations. That's my one regret code-wise - that I didn't write a paper to cite - so I can't numerically count all those (MClust, A. D. Redish) citations. But I know that I got career credit for it.