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[GH-ISSUE #1136] get DOI for better citations in papers #4933
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Originally created by @rursprung on GitHub (Jul 7, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/semver/semver/issues/1136
i noticed that there are a lot of papers citing semver, however since there's no DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for semver.org these citations all look different and are not grouped together.
since semver is nowadays a fundamental concept in software engineering (thanks for that!) it'd IMHO make sense if you could get a DOI pointing to each version of semver (or at least one for the current v2.0.0) and mention that both on semver.org and in this repository.
alternatively - and maybe even the easiest way to get a DOI? - you could submit the semver specification to an appropriate journal for publishing or even just publish it on arXiv - that'd automatically give you a DOI.
in the repository it'd also make sense to add a citation file which gives the standard way to cite this.
@steveklabnik commented on GitHub (Jul 7, 2025):
I agree that this is a good idea, I'm going to put it on my pile of "when I have time for semver work". Thanks for bringing it up!
@zubayr0111 commented on GitHub (Jul 30, 2025):
salom
@zubayr0111 commented on GitHub (Jul 30, 2025):
menga yordam berolasizm
@JohnTitor commented on GitHub (Aug 24, 2025):
Duplicate of https://github.com/semver/semver/issues/912
@rursprung commented on GitHub (Aug 25, 2025):
@JohnTitor: i don't think this is fully a duplicate: having a citation file would already be great, but having a DOI would be even better. i'd say: go ahead with the citation file but still try to obtain a DOI at some point in the future and then add that to the citation file as well.