I was wondering if Julia had something similar to R’s citation() function with which you can easily get “metadata” about a package, such as its version, authors, title and so on, as well as a bib entry. Also, I’m curious if it would be feasible (and a good idea) to automatically generate a DOI for …

Not that I know of, but this almost sounds like something Pkg3 should be able to automatically take care of with some nifty PRs.

Here is pretty much exactly the same proposal: ANN: Our Julia paper in SIAM Review - #2 by mkborregaard Like said above someone should just take the effort and make a pull request.

Thanks for linking these posts!

Citation method to cite packages?

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Tero_Frondelius August 28, 2018, 5:22pm 3

Here a similar proposal: Features I would like for Julia Package Manager to Provide

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[ANN] Announcing PkgCite.jl Package Announcements package , announcement	1	743	June 18, 2021
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ANN: Our Julia paper in SIAM Review Community	6	1942	April 3, 2017

Citation method to cite packages?

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