3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
A Practical Primer on Software Citation in Research
Floor S. Broekgaarden, Phil R. Van-Lane, Sasha Levina +9
Software underlies virtually all modern research, yet citation practices for software remain inconsistent and often inadequate. This short primer offers practical guidance in two d…
cs.CR2026
Do AI Coding Assistants Check Before They Install? A Pre-Registered Demand-Side Audit of Trust Signals in the Research Software Supply Chain
Pengyin Shan
AI coding assistants now select, install, and configure software, and attackers have exploited that position through invented package names, compromised maintainer accounts, and ma…
cs.SE2026
A Multi-Surface Consistency Audit of Software Citation Metadata
Pengyin Shan
Research software projects describe themselves in many places at once: citation files in the repository, archive deposits, DOI registry records, package registries, and README text…