| Title |
Influence analysis of Github repositories
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|---|---|
| Published in |
SpringerPlus, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40064-016-2897-7 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Yan Hu, Jun Zhang, Xiaomei Bai, Shuo Yu, Zhuo Yang |
| Abstract |
With the support of cloud computing techniques, social coding platforms have changed the style of software development. Github is now the most popular social coding platform and project hosting service. Software developers of various levels keep entering Github, and use Github to save their public and private software projects. The large amounts of software developers and software repositories on Github are posing new challenges to the world of software engineering. This paper tries to tackle one of the important problems: analyzing the importance and influence of Github repositories. We proposed a HITS based influence analysis on graphs that represent the star relationship between Github users and repositories. A weighted version of HITS is applied to the overall star graph, and generates a different set of top influential repositories other than the results from standard version of HITS algorithm. We also conduct the influential analysis on per-month star graph, and study the monthly influence ranking of top repositories. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 4 | 57% |
| Greece | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 2 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 57% |
| Scientists | 3 | 43% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 133 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 18 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 15 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 10% |
| Researcher | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 20 | 15% |
| Unknown | 42 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | 54 | 40% |
| Engineering | 15 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 10 | 7% |
| Unknown | 46 | 34% |
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