Debian Conference 2025, Brest, Jul 14th - 19th
Joenio M. Costa and Christina von Flach
Institute of Computing, Federal University of Bahia
Institute of Computing, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
https://christinaflach.github.io
Institute of Computing, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
Source: Morane Gruenpeter et al. 2021.
Defining Research Software: A controversial discussion.
Source: James Howison and James D. Herbsleb. 2011.
Scientific software production: incentives and collaboration.
Source: Naveen Donthu et al. 2021.
How to conduct a bibliometric analysis: An overview and guidelines.
Due to the exploratory nature of our work, we only collected data from one bibliographic research database, Scopus.
Name | Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
---|---|---|
Language | Is English | Isn’t English |
Year | Beetween 1993-2024 | Isn’t beetween 1993-2024 |
Author | Isn’t empty | Is empty |
Title | Match “debian” | Doesn’t match “debian” |
Abstract | Match “debian” | Doesn’t match “debian” |
In this step 53 documents were removed in a semi-automated procedure.
Rodríguez R. et al. 1995.
La perspectiva profesional en la reforma de la atención primaria de salud: una aproximación cualitativa.
Abstract: “La mayor parte de los profesionales opinaban que los programas de enfermedades prevalentes debían venir elaborados de forma vertical…“
Paper metadata:
Type = Article, Language = English
Source = Gaceta Sanitaria
Ahsan Ullah et al. 2024.
A Comparative Study on Vulnerabilities, Challenges, and Security Measures in
Wireless Network Security.
Abstract: “Dataset, generated using Tpot within Debian operating system, serves as the cornerstone of this research, with…“
Paper metadata:
Type = Article, Language = English,
Source = Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Tommi Syrjänen. 2000.
Including Diagnostic Information in Configuration Models.
Abstract: “As an example, a subset of the configuration problem for the Debian GNU/Linux system is formalized using the new rule-based language.”
The first paper indexed by Scopus mentioning Debian was published only 7 years after the Debian release in 1993.
Paper metadata:
Type = Conference paper, Language = English,
Source = Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Ardavan F. Oskooi. 2010.
Meep: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method.
(cited 2,437 times)
Abstract: “Operating system: Any Unix-like system; developed under Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2.”
Scopus metadata:
Type = Article, Language = English,
Source = Computer Physics Communications
Ardavan F. Oskooi. 2010.
Meep: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method.
Abstract:
“This paper describes Meep, a popular free implementation of the
finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method for simulating electromagnetism. In
particular, we focus on aspects of implementing a full-featured FDTD package
that go beyond standard textbook descriptions of the algorithm, or ways in
which Meep differs from typical FDTD implementations…
Operating system: Any Unix-like system; developed under Debian GNU/Linux
5.0.2…“
The top 10 most cited papers are about algorithm implementation and research software (tools).
# | Title | Year | Cited by | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
01 | Meep: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method | 2010 | 2437 | Article |
02 | SNP-sites: rapid efficient extraction of SNPs from multi-FASTA alignments | 2016 | 893 | Article |
03 | Seamless R and C++ integration with Rcpp | 2013 | 281 | Book |
04 | Herding cats: Modelling, simulation, testing, and data mining for weak memory | 2014 | 227 | Article |
05 | Toward Large-Scale Vulnerability Discovery using Machine Learning | 2016 | 216 | Conference paper |
06 | ReDeBug: Finding unpatched code clones in entire OS distributions | 2012 | 208 | Conference paper |
07 | THERMINATOR: THERMal heavy-IoN generATOR | 2006 | 190 | Article |
08 | Flip feng Shui: Hammering a needle in the software stack | 2016 | 189 | Conference paper |
09 | A new monotonic, clone-independent, reversal symmetric, and condorcet-consistent single-winner election method | 2011 | 174 | Article |
10 | FreeContact: Fast and free software for protein contact prediction from residue co-evolution | 2014 | 134 | Article |
Role-based Category = Modeling, Simulation, and Data Analytics
There are Research Software among the 10 oldest publications?
# | Title | Research software? |
---|---|---|
01 | Including diagnostic information in configuration models (2000) | Yes: Smodels lang |
02 | Demudi: The Debian Multimedia Distribution (2001) | Yes: Debian-derivative |
03 | Statistically based postprocessing of phylogenetic analysis by clustering (2002) | Yes: Matlab lang |
04 | Towards intelligent support for managing evolution of configurable software product families (2003) | Yes: Product-line prototype |
05 | A Framework for Blood Flow Analysis and Research (2003) | Yes: Ultrasound Doppler |
06 | Open source software development should strive for even greater code maintainability (2004) | No |
07 | Managing volunteer activity in free software projects (2004) | No |
08 | Can we trust cryptographic software? Cryptographic flaws in GNU privacy guard v1.2.3 (2004) | No |
09 | Demonstration abstract: BNF converter (2004) | Yes: BNF converter |
10 | Configurable coprocessing with an ARC-PCI board (2004) | Yes: Hardware + Linux driver |
(Yes = 7, No = 3)
# | Author | N. of papers | The oldest paper |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Zacchiroli S. | 13 papers | The Ultimate Debian Database: Consolidating bazaar metadata for Quality Assurance and data mining (2010) |
2 | German D.M. | 10 papers | A Model to Understand the Building and Running Inter-Dependencies of Software (2007) |
3 | Di Cosmo R. | 9 papers | Predicting upgrade failures using dependency analysis (2011) |
4 | Robles G. | 9 papers | Evolution of volunteer participation in libre software projects: Evidence from debian (2005) |
“Among the most active researchers, there are publications with studies about Debian or for Debian.”
(MCP: Multiple Country Publications, SCP: Single Country Publications)
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