How used are user-released commands? Introducing ssccount

Tim P. Morris () and Babak Choodari-Oskooei ()
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Tim P. Morris: MRC Clinical Trials Unit, University College London, UK
Babak Choodari-Oskooei: MRC Clinical Trials Unit, University College London, UK

United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2015 from Stata Users Group

Abstract: Statisticians and econometricians developing new methods are keen for their methods to be adopted, and releasing user-friendly software plays an important role in uptake. Methods that were not initially applied much, and became so after software implementations, include Cox’s proportional-hazards model, multiple imputation and propensity score matching. It is easy to release packages to the Stata community via the Boston College Statistical Software Components (SSC) archive, but gauging the uptake can be difficult. Stata’s ssc hot command lists the number of hits for a recent month for packages available on SSC. The new ssccount command goes further, obtaining monthly files of hits (from July 2007 when records began) for specified authors and packages, and optionally plots the number of hits over time. This can give authors an impression of how well their commands are being used. Funders are increasingly asking for evidence of impact, and thus ssccount provides a useful soft measure.

Date: 2015-09-16
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