I think that's the wrong end of the stick. When you publish research, the software you used/built on is part of the methods and needs to be cited. The authors a

I think that's the wrong end of the stick. When you publish research, the software you used/built on is part of the methods and needs to be cited. The authors are doing you a courtesy by providing a pasteable citation. Similar "we would appreciate citations" statement for (BSD-licensed) pandas: https://pandas.pydata.org/about/citing.html https://pandas.pydata.org/about/citing.html 8000+ pubs citing pandas: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9876954816936339312 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9876954816936339312