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Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)

Scope

  • This wiki page summarises relevant facts about DOI and related persistent Identifiers (PID) for the OSGeo communities.
  • A DOI is a persistent identifier (PID).
  • More infomation about PID for OSGeo is available here in the wiki

Useful background information


Howto information for GitHub Repo maintainers (source Zenodo FAQ)

My organizational repository does not show up on the GitHub list

"In order to see and archive your organizational repositories on Zenodo you will need to have "Admin" permissions on said repository, either as an Admin of the organization or an Admin of one of your organization's repositories. Additionally, please make sure that the OAuth application on GitHub is granting permissions not only to your personal repositories but also to your organizational ones - to verify that go to your GitHub OAuth settings in your profile, and click on the Zenodo application to see more details. Make sure that Zenodo is given access (green tick) to your organization under "Organization access".

After that, navigate to your Zenodo GitHub settings page and click the "Sync now" button at the top."

I made a GitHub release, but it does not show up on Zenodo.

"Make sure the repository was enabled before the release was made, otherwise feel free to contact ZENODO."

Is it possible to archive a GitHub repository, before it was enabled on Zenodo?

"Only the repositories which were enabled before a release was made will be archived automatically. If you want to archive some of your old releases, you can always download a release ZIP from GitHub and upload it to Zenodo using our web interface as a regular upload."

How to change the default metadata for my GitHub releases?

"You can include metadata in a .zenodo.json file at the root of your GitHub repository. This file's contents should be in line with the Zenodo deposit metadata schema and will be used to update the metadata from future GitHub releases. For more information on how to create a .zenodo.json file, you can have a look at our GitHub integration documenation."

Do you support other software metadata files, like CITATION.cff or codemeta.json?

"Part of our plans and ongoing work is to take into account or improve our integration of other software metadata schemas such as the Citation File Format (CFF) and CodeMeta. We are working closely with our users and scholarly software and citation communities to figure out exactly when, in what form, and how all these different metadata schemas and their files will be integrated into Zenodo."

How does a CITATION.cff file affect the metadata of my GitHub release?

"When we find a CITATION.cff file in your GitHub repository's root folder, we make a best-effort attempt at parsing Zenodo-compatible metadata from it. For backwards-compatibility, if you have a .zenodo.json file in the repository, only the .zenodo.json's metadata will be taken into account. Of course, any existing valid CITATION.cff file will still be used to display the citation box on the GitHub repository page, but will not affect in any way the metadata we extract for your published release Zenodo record."

Do you support versioning for already existing records?

"Yes. However, for uploads published before the 30th of May 2017, you have to first upgrade your record to support versioning. This is done by clicking the “Upgrade to versioned record” button on the record page.

IMPORTANT If you have previously uploaded multiple versions of an upload as individual records on Zenodo, then DO NOT click the button to upgrade your record with versioning support. Please contact us so we can link the records under one versioning scheme.

Clicking the “Upgrade to versioned record” button on any of the records you would like to link, will irreversibly register them as individually-versioned records.

If you used the GitHub integration to archive your software on Zenodo, then we have already migrated and linked your records to support versioning."

Usage examples to cite OSGeo projects by DOI in scientific publications (both Open Access and closed access)

DOI

How to include a DOI-based reference to a LaTEX/Overleaf document.

BEWARE: As of now (2023-03-27) it remains to be confirmed that DOI-tags in citations work without the https://doi.org-header. This might (just) result in human readable information, but not machine-readable.

Publication DOI

@article{Chen_2003_Giants, title={On the Shoulders of Giants}, url={\url{https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0051-5_5}}, DOI={10.1007/978-1-4471-0051-5_5}, journal={Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization}, publisher={Springer London}, author={Chen, Chaomei}, year={2003}, pages={135–166} }

Video DOI

@article{Inman_1987, title={GRASS}, url={https://av.tib.eu/media/12963}, DOI={10.5446/12963}, abstractNote={Video presentation explaining the features and capabilities of this computer-based mapping system.}, publisher={Moving Pictures, US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory}, author={Inman, Roger J.}, year={1987}, language={en} }

Software Concept DOI (a reference to a software project as a whole)

@article{GRASS_CONCEPT_DOI, title={OSGeo/grass: GRASS GIS 8.2.0}, url={https://zenodo.org/record/5176030}, DOI={10.5281/ZENODO.5176030}, abstractNote={ .. CONTENT OMMITTED FOR BREVITY ..}, year={2022}, month={Jun} }

Software Version DOI (a reference to a particular software release)

@article{QGIS_Contributors_2022, title={QGIS}, url={https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5869837}, DOI={10.5281/ZENODO.5869837}, publisher={Zenodo}, author={QGIS Contributors}, year={2022}, month={Jan} }

Added-value services based on DOI


DOI available for OSGeo Projects

OSGeo Project DOI First minted Integration Status
actinia https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5879231 2022 automated
GDAL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5884351 2022 automated
GeoNetwork https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11653683 2024 automated
GeoMoose https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7976084 2023 tbd
Geopaparazzi https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.5881915 2022 tbd
GeoServer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5854561 2022 automated
GeoTools https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5854653 2022 tbd
GMT https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3407865 2019 tbd
GRASS GIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 2021 automated
gvSIG https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5849091 2022 manual upload
Hortonmachine https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.5881778 2022 tbd
istSOS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5888498 2022 manual
Mapbender https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5887014 2022 tbd
MapServer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6994443 2021 automated
MOSS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5140318 2022 automated
OSGeoLive https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5884641 2022 tbd
OSGeoLive Documentation https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5884859 2022 tbd
PostGIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5879631 2021 manual upload
PROJ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5884394 2022 automated
pycsw https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7839119 2023 automated
pygeoapi https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7602922 2022 automated
QGIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5869837 2022 manual upload
QGIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14204331 2022 automated
rasdaman https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1040170 2017 manual upload
SMASH https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5882070 2022 tbd
OSGeo projects with DOI 23


<Add your project DOI here, while maintaining alphabetical order>

DOI-based Citations of OSGeo Projects in Scientific Literature

The following citation listings for OSGeo projects are curated both manually and using automated data-harvesting from CrossRef. The list is currently updated annually. This listing is not complete. The total number of scientific publications referencing OSGeo projects by their DOI is most likely much larger. Publications such as FOSS4G Proceedings in The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences are currently not referenced by CrossRef and must be added manually.

actinia

(search for this DOI on Google Scholar)

Actinia: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

GDAL

(search for this DOI on Google Scholar)

GDAL: DOI-based citations by year
Year Publications
2021 and earlier 0
2022 6
2023 7
2024 12 (and counting)
GDAL: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2024-12-16 journal_article Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems TorchGeo: Deep Learning With Geospatial Data https://doi.org/10.1145/3707459 Source: Crossref
2024-12-11 journal_article Elsevier BV Science of Remote Sensing Developing a forest description from remote sensing: Insights from New Zealand https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2024.100183 Source: Crossref
2024-11-20 journal_article Oxford University Press (OUP) Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research Detection of snow disturbances in boreal forests using unitemporal airborne lidar data and aerial images https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpae057 Source: Crossref
2024-10-17 journal_article American Geophysical Union (AGU) Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Geostratigraphic Mapping of the Intrusive Valentine Domes on the Moon https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JE008423 Source: Crossref
2024-9-4 journal_article The Open Journal Journal of Open Source Software InsarViz: An open source Python package for the interactive visualization of satellite SAR interferometry data https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06440 Source: Crossref
2024-8-29 journal_article Springer Science and Business Media LLC Scientific Data A revised digital edition of Wurm & Hattori’s Language Atlas of the Pacific Area https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03816-w Source: Crossref
2024-7-23 journal_article American Meteorological Society Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Quasi-Linear Convective Systems and Derechos across Europe: Climatology, Accompanying Hazards, and Societal Impacts https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0257.1 Source: Crossref
2024-7-22 journal_article The Royal Society Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Spatially explicit predictions of food web structure from regional-level data https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0166 Source: Crossref
2024-7-04 journal_article Copernicus GmbH The Cryosphere Analyzing the sensitivity of a blowing snow model (SnowPappus) to precipitation forcing, blowing snow, and spatial resolution https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3081-2024 Source: Crossref
2024-1-23 journal_article American Geophysical Union (AGU) Earth and Space Science Mapping Daily Air Temperature Over the Hawaiian Islands From 1990 to 2021 via an Optimized Piecewise Linear Regression Technique https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA002851 Source: Crossref
2024-1-2 journal_article American Geophysical Union (AGU) GeoHealth Premature Deaths Due To Heat Exposure: The Potential Effects of Neighborhood‐Level Versus City‐Level Acclimatization Within US Cities https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GH000970 Source: Crossref
2024-1-2 journal_article Elsevier BV Ecological Indicators New approach to assess forest fragmentation based on multiscale similarity index https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.111530 Source: Crossref
2023-12-19 journal_article American Geophysical Union (AGU) Earth and Space Science High‐Resolution Maps of Near‐Surface Permafrost for Three Watersheds on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska Derived From Machine Learning https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003015 Source: Crossref
2023-10-20 journal_article MDPI AG Sensors Comparing NISAR (Using Sentinel-1), USDA/NASS CDL, and Ground Truth Crop/Non-Crop Areas in an Urban Agricultural Region https://doi.org/10.3390/s23208595 Source: Crossref
2023-07-29 journal_article Springer Science and Business Media LLC Scientific Reports First estimates of fine root production in tropical peat swamp and terra firme forests of the central Congo Basin https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38409-x Source: Crossref
2023-04-19 journal_article Geomatik Geomatik Yersel referans verilerinin doğruluğunun çok zamanlı Sentinel-2 uydu görüntüleri ile araştırılması: Arpa ve Buğday örneği https://doi.org/10.29128/geomatik.1210252 Source: Crossref
2023-03-28 journal_article Wiley Crop Science Endemic crop wild relatives in Chile towards the end of the 21st century: Protected areas and agricultural expansion https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20962 Source: Crossref
2023-03-17 journal_article IOP Publishing Environmental Research Communications Validation of FABDEM, a global bare-earth elevation model, against UAV-lidar derived elevation in a complex forested mountain catchment https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acc56d Source: Crossref
2023-01-20 journal_article Springer Science and Business Media LLC Scientific Data A 1.2 Billion Pixel Human-Labeled Dataset for Data-Driven Classification of Coastal Environments https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01929-2 Source: Crossref
2022-11-08 journal_article MDPI AG Remote Sensing Assessing Changes in Boreal Vegetation of Kola Peninsula via Large-Scale Land Cover Classification between 1985 and 2021 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14215616 Source: Crossref
2022-10-10 journal_article Copernicus GmbH Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Automated snow avalanche release area delineation in data-sparse, remote, and forested regions https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-3247-2022 Source: Crossref
2022-06-27 journal_article MDPI AG Sensors A Novel Remote Sensing Image Registration Algorithm Based on Feature Using ProbNet-RANSAC https://doi.org/10.3390/s22134791 Source: Crossref
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Source: Crossref
2022-04-16 journal_article MDPI AG Agronomy Remote Sensing of Maize Plant Height at Different Growth Stages Using UAV-Based Digital Surface Models (DSM) https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12040958 Source: Crossref
2022-02-23 journal_article Copernicus GmbH Earth System Science Data EcoDes-DK15: high-resolution ecological descriptors of vegetation and terrain derived from Denmark's national airborne laser scanning data set https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-823-2022 Source: Crossref

Geopaparazzi

Geopaparazzi: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

GeoServer

Geoserver: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

GeoTools

GeoTools: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

GMT

GMT: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2024-03-25 preprint ESS Open Archive Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems The Generic Mapping Tools and Animations for the Masses https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.171104119.93847599/v2 manual
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

GRASS GIS

(search for this DOI on Google Scholar)

GRASS GIS: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2024-10-25 journal_article Elsevier BV Global Ecology and Conservation Organisms with high dispersal ability as a proxy for biogeographical characterisation of the Mediterranean biome https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03268 Source: Crossref
2024-05-03 preprint article online SSRN Organisms with High Dispersal Ability as a Proxy for Biogeographical Characterization of the Mediterranean Biome https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4815828 Google Scholar
2024-09-01 journal article Elsevier Ocean & Coastal Management Looking for the surviving optimal areas for the threatened species Pinna nobilis in a highly anthropized coastal lagoon (Mar Menor, SE Spain) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107265 Crossref
2024-05-23 journal article Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland Earth Science, Systems and Society Geochemical Pathways Defined by Predictive Regolith-Landform Models Using TanDEM-X Data in the Tanami Region, Australia https://doi.org/10.3389/esss.2024.10111 Crossref
2024-05-22 journal article Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization Optimal charging station location in a linear cycle path with deviations https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60924-4_27 Crossref
2022-08-24 journal article ISPRS Foundation Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. OSGeo, persistent identifiers and the shape of things to come https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W1-2022-287-2022 manual
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref
2022-03-28 journal article Copernicus EGU General Assembly 2022 The new emerging DOI biotope within and around the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5985 manual

gvSIG

gvSIG: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

Hortonmachine

Hortonmachine: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

MapServer

MapServer: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

MOSS

MOSS: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref
2022-03-28 Conference proceedings Copernicus EGU General Assembly 2022 The new emerging DOI biotope within and around the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5985 manual
2022-03-28 Conference proceedings Zenodo FORCE2021 Conference MOSS: Back to the future https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5761252 manual
2022-03-28 Conference proceedings Copernicus EGU General Assembly 2021 Raiders of the Lost Code: Preserving the MOSS Codebase - Significance, Status, Challenges and Opportunities https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-5492 manual

OSGeoLive

OSGeoLive: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

OSGeoLive Documentation

OSGeoLive Documentation: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

PostGIS

PostGIS: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

PROJ

PROJ: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2023-09-29 journal_article American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geophysical Research Letters Use of Shallow Ice Core Measurements to Evaluate and Constrain 1980–1990 Global Reanalyses of Ice Sheet Precipitation Rates https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103943 Source: Crossref
2023-08-10 journal_article Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks Multivariate Time Series Forecasting With GARCH Models on Graphs https://doi.org/10.1109/TSIPN.2023.3304142 Source: Crossref
2022-11-07 journal_article Seismological Society of America (SSA) Seismological Research Letters GrowClust3D.jl: A Julia Package for the Relative Relocation of Earthquake Hypocenters Using 3D Velocity Models https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220193 Source: Crossref
2022-07-25 journal_article MDPI AG Remote Sensing An Efficient Global Scale Sentinel-1 Radar Backscatter and Interferometric Processing System https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14153524 Source: Crossref
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Source: Crossref

QGIS

QGIS: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-07-19 journal_article American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems Development of the Nyika Plateau, Malawi: A Long Lived Paleo‐Surface or a Contemporary Feature of the East African Rift? https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010390 Source: Crossref
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

rasdaman

rasdaman: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

SMASH

SMASH: Software-DOI-based Citations
Date Type Publisher Journal Title Publication DOI Source
2022-06-24 book_content Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Open Source – GIS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53125-6_30 Crossref

Projects considering a DOI

  1. degree
  2. (NASA World Wind)


<Add your project here>

DOI for datasets related to OSGeo

This is an incomplete overview over geospatial data sources which can be referenced by DOI. Many more datasets are available in Open Access repositories such as Zenodo

GRASS GIS

  1. Spearfish Dataset for GRASS GIS v4.x - v8.x https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7930522
  2. New Orleans Dataset for GRASS GIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3359642
  3. Hilltop Arboretum Landform Dataset for GRASS GIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3749397
  4. Sichuan Dataset for GRASS GIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3359645
  5. The Hills of Governor's Island Dataset for GRASS GIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5248688
  6. Louisiana Dataset for GRASS GIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3359620
  7. Natural Earth Dataset for GRASS GIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3968936
  8. Global Dataset for GRASS GIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3359632
  9. Governor's Island Dataset for GRASS GIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5248419

(add datasets here)

QGIS

  1. Governor's Island Dataset for QGIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5701115
  2. Louisiana Dataset for QGIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3359620

(add datasets here)

DOI for OSGeo Video Recordings

add your DOI badge to your project pages

  • please add your DOI badge to your project

See Example Mapbender

You badge looks like this (replace your DOI in the Link and svg name) 

 <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5887014"><img src="https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.5887014.svg" alt="DOI"></a>

DOI acknowledgement by Publishers and Journals

References in indexed scientific literature to research software, including the OSGeo software projects, can be counted as citations and due scientific credit for the persons developing and maintaining the research software).

The emerging best practice for software references is reference by DOI. Such a DOI reference can either refer to the software project as a whole (concept DOI), or a particular release of the codebase (version DOI).

Keeping track of DOI-based software citations can both be done manually or by automated analysis of metadata about the publication provided centrally by CrossRef or DataCite.

The prerequisite for automated analysis and reporting (as in FAIR: machine-actionable and interoperable) is the provision of a full references list for the publication as a complete set of metadata to CrossRef.

If only a limited subset of the reference list is provided to CrossRef, metadata-based automated analysis and reporting will return no result, meaning no information about the citation.

In such a case, despite the best intentions by the publication authors by using DOI-based software citations in their publication, because of the lack of metadata, automated reporting will return no result and there will be no due credit by citation to the software project.

This also affects the software developer team, as there will be no credit / recognition of their roles as (research-)software authors, because there is no automated transitive credit to their individual ORCID accounts will be triggered.


Currently it is difficult at best for propective authors to assess prior to a publication whether software-references by DOI will be indexed by CrossRef, resulting in FAIR credit.

To mitigate this, incomplete lists are being compiled (below) of journals, for convenience of prospective authors, to assess wheter software-references will result in credit propagation to the software project and developer team.

  • A greenlist collects journals and publications with confirmed software citations derived from CrossRef metadata.
  • A whitelist compiles journals and publications with identical metadata practices to the greenlist, but where no DOI-based software citation has been confirmed yet.
  • A greylist collects journals, where OSGeo-DOI have been used in publications, yet currently are not being indexed by CrossRef.

For scientific authors, the difference between a publication in a green-, whitelist or greylist journal is wether DOI-based references to OSGeo software, -data or -video will be automagically attributed ("due scientific credit") to the respective OSGeo community / persons. For greylist journals, such attribution needs to be compiled manually.

Publisher statements about software citation by DOI

Greenlist: Journals and Publications with confirmed CrossRef-listed software DOI references to OSGeo Projects

Greenlist: Publications acknowledging DOI-based software citations (confirmed: 27 Journals as of 20241227)
Publisher Journal / Publication
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Earth and Space Science
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
American Geophysical Union (AGU) GeoHealth
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geophysical Research Letters
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Planets
American Meteorological Society Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
Copernicus GmbH Earth System Science Data
Copernicus GmbH Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (EGU)
Copernicus GmbH The Cryosphere
Elsevier Ecological Indicators
Elsevier Global Ecology and Conservation
Elsevier Ocean & Coastal Management
Elsevier Science of Remote Sensing
Geomatik Geomatik
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks
IOP Publishing Environmental Research Communications
MDPI AG Agronomy
MDPI AG Remote Sensing
MDPI AG Sensors
Oxford University Press (OUP) Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research
Seismological Society of America (SSA) Seismological Research Letters
Springer Nature Switzerland Earth Science, Systems and Society
Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Handbook Series
Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Scientific Reports (Nature)
Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Scientific Data (Nature)
The Open Journal Journal of Open Source Software
Wiley Crop Science

Whitelist: Journals and Publications with CrossRef-enabled workflows to acknowledging DOI-based software citations (not yet confirmed but should apply)

Whitelist: Publications with CrossRef-enabled workflows to acknowledging DOI-based software citations (not yet confirmed)
Publisher Journal / Publication
American Geophysical Union (AGU) DOI-based software citations via CrossRef should work for ALL indexed peer-reviewed journals by AGU: A full references list is provided to CrossRef when an article is published (Sole exception: AGU Radio Science)
tbd tbd

Greylist: Journals and Publications reporting DOI references to CrossRef

Greylist: Publications not yet acknowledging DOI-based software citations
Publisher Journal / Publication
Copernicus GmbH The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
American Geophysical Union (AGU) EOS.org (note: EOS is a sceience news magazine published by AGU. It is not a indexed peer-reviewed journal)
Earth and Space Science Open Archive https://essopenarchive.org/ Preprints, presentations from major scientific meetings, and important documents of scholarly societies (with DOI)

Related Identifiers

Research Organisiation Registry (ROR): An ID for the OSGeo Foundation

ROR is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations.

OSGeo ROR

The OSGeo Foundation is a research organisation.

The ROR ID for OSGeo is https://ror.org/00cjqbk89

Usage of ROR

Many scholarly communication systems are already using ROR, and many others are working on integrating ROR.

Background Information (ROR Community) =

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) - a PID for people

Authentice an ORCID account with a GitHub

„We’re excited to announce that GitHub is partnering with ORCID. You can now authenticate your ORCID account with your GitHub account, and display your ORCID iD on your public GitHub profile. ORCID provides a persistent unique digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that researchers own and control, and that distinguishes them from every other researcher."

https://github.blog/changelog/2024-03-13-authenticate-orcid-id/

How to include ORCIDs to a LaTEX/Overleaf document

Include these packages: \usepackage{orcidlink} \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

\author{ Peter Löwe\,\orcidlink{0000-0003-2257-0517}~\textsuperscript{1}\thanks{Corresponding author}, Markus Neteler\,\orcidlink{0000-0003-1916-1966}~\textsuperscript{2} } (Source: OSGEO, PERSISTENT IDENTIFIERS AND THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME)

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