Don't mention it: An approach to assess challenges to using software mentions for citation and discoverability research

Understand

Datasets collecting software mentions from scholarly publications can potentially be used for research into the software that has been used in the published research, as well as into the practice of software citation.

• Recently, new software mention datasets with different characteristics have been published.
• We present an approach to assess the usability of such datasets for research on research software.
• Our approach includes sampling and data preparation, manual annotation for quality and mention characteristics, and annotation analysis.