You don’t have to publish papers to have academic citations or even an h-index. I dropped out of uni years ago 🤦‍♂️, and always wanted to contribute in different ways: open-source libraries, datasets, benchmarks, and overly long blog posts. I finally created a Google Scholar profile and started linking my GitHub repositories and articles. It turns out some academics are kind enough to cite good ideas regardless of where they come from 🫶 Scholar’s attribution machinery is hilariously basic: it split citations between GitHub and Zenodo versions, missed entire projects, and failed to connect several papers to the software or articles they explicitly reference. Nevertheless, I have already amassed a monumental h-index of 3 😂 Open-source devs, your software may already be part of the academic literature. You might even have an h-index without knowing it. Go check Google Scholar, you may be pleasantly surprised! P.S. Geoffrey Hinton’s h-index is 192. Only 189 to go.

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