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From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org]
On Behalf Of Ivan Calandra
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 3:47 PM
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
Bob,
I have no idea whether it is realistic, but if you look for the papers
that used R or SAS (or anything), you might get better results by
searching for the way R and SAS are cited.
Hi Ivan, that was what I tried when more generic keywords failed. However, almost no one
seems to use that citation. For example, in 2009, only 28 papers contain "R
Foundation" and 61 contain Bioconductor, which uses R. One single paper contains
both. I appreciate the idea though!
Thanks,
Bob
Hi Bob,
Great work. I just did a quick-and-dirty search on Google Scholar, but
trying to be less stringent about what to consider a "hit". I used for
R: "R statistical" OR "R package", for SPSS; just "SPSS", for S-plus;
ditto, for SAS; "SAS statistical" OR "SAS institute", for STATA; "STATA"
AND "statistical". For estimating a "background" of scholarly
statistical publications I just searched for the word "statistical" and
did this and searching for each year. Of course this "methodology" is
far from acceptable, and includes many things that were not necessarily
works that used the software, and may have only mentioned it, but it
does throw some interesting things. I am using *cited* in the sense of
*mentioned in the article as to be indexed by Google*, not as an
academic citation.
It appears that SPSS is going down from having the lion's-share in mid
2000's, but remains the most cited. SAS had a big dip from being the
most cited, but is having a come-back. STATA, and R are both rising
steadly, with R having a more than 16-fold increase from 2000, but still
being a small fraction of total citations. There is a dip in 2010 for
STATA, R, and S-Plus, and a big peak for SAS, but I am not sure these
are artifacts form Goggle's algorithm.
If anyone wants to give it a look, here's the data:
Search
term,2010,2009,2008,2007,2006,2005,2004,2003,2002,2001,2000,1999,1998,1997,1996,1995
SPSS,28900,46700,64600,84600,97600,104000,105000,91800,67700,53600,40600,22600,15300,10100,7530,6330
SAS,15300,15000,14700,15200,14900,15900,16800,16800,16200,15500,14600,13100,11900,10700,9270,8950
STATA,9800,19300,16900,14600,12800,10700,8930,6780,4900,4050,3280,2120,1560,959,642,501
S-Plus,1900,4820,4900,5050,4950,4780,5100,4110,3610,2970,2540,2150,1780,1500,1200,990
R,3470,6140,4660,3510,2450,1700,1090,642,416,294,247,188,203,178,133,158
statistical,181000,347000,709000,885000,1010000,1030000,1060000,1110000,1090000,1020000,968000,887000,786000,718000,670000,580000
Best wishes,
Keo.
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