Provided your project is on GitHub, it's quite easy to integrate with Zenodo and generate a DOI for each formal GitHub release: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-repository/referencing-and-citing-content#issuing-a-persistent-identifier-for-your-repository-with-zenodo. If your project isn't on GitHub, you could upload it yourself to Zenodo to achieve the same result. This shouldn't have any complications with future methodological papers about the tool. It would be like publishing a preprint and then submitting a manuscript to a journal. In fact, if you have a DOI for the code (Zenodo) and a DOI for the publication (from a journal, e.g., JOSS), users would then have the flexibility to cite one or both depending on how they interacted with the project.
________________________________ William Gearty Postdoctoral Researcher Open Source Program Office Syracuse University ________________________________ William Gearty Postdoctoral Researcher Open Source Program Office Syracuse University On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM Paulo Flores Ribeiro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I hope this question fits within the scope of this group. > Imagine you’ve just finished building an analytical tool with potential > scientific impact. The tool runs from an open-access web page and was > developed in R, using several spatial data analysis packages, including > shiny for the online interface. > How would you go about registering authorship of this tool so that it > can be publicly shared and used by others, while ensuring proper credit? > Some colleagues mentioned assigning a DOI via Zenodo or Figshare, but > I’m not familiar with how that works. Would doing this later complicate > publishing a methodological paper about the tool, since it would already > have been “published” or registered beforehand? > Thanks for any advice! > > Paulo Flores Ribeiro > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
