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Red-Portal t1_islqls3 wrote

If your software has actual academic value, I see absolutely no reason why you wouldn't publish it in academic journals. After all, academic journals examine the scientific or technical value of your software and its underlying methodology/interface, which open source journals won't. Therefore some people might think that the academic contribution of your work has not been validated, which is relevant for your PhD and your academic success.

What I strongly recommend is, either try to publish a regular paper in regular machine learning venues, or try to aim for JMLR OSS track or the Journal of Statistical Software (if your work has a statistical learning flavor). Both are proper academic journals, but specialized tracks for OSS software, that I think your advisor (and hopefully yourself) would be happy with.

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[deleted] OP t1_islv6ii wrote

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todeedee t1_ism7oh0 wrote

If you want something citable, why not just post it on arvix and be done with it?

Also note that people can directly cite your github page -- just make sure to include the citation instructions (i.e. bibtex) in the readme

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AgBGfullTvB t1_ispbwry wrote

And/Or create a citiation.cff file for this, a Standard supported by github, probably gets better indexed then putting it in the README.

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trutheality t1_ismsf4a wrote

You don't need to publish anything for there to be a citable object: just mint a doi for a GitHub release.

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AgBGfullTvB t1_ispasne wrote

Add on, you can get a (DOI) from zenodo.org and autopublish every Release from github there. Do not forget to add rich Metadaten and links to some of the other publication relayed to eat. What I like compared to a Single paper in time is, that New contributers can still get Credit down the line.

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DiMorten t1_isn2l2k wrote

how about not publishing it? Nvm, just a PhD student here who would not like to do anything academia-related after graduating from PhD. Or perhaps find a short journal (5 pages) and be done with it

PS: Any tips on how to get out of academia after a machine learning PhD?

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L1-___-L10 t1_isn9lbk wrote

I'd suggest you ask that question as a post on its own -- I'm sure other people will have the same question

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Temporary_Lettuce_94 t1_isnd9oa wrote

Your advisor gets evaluated on the basis of the index associated with the publications he authored/supervised. The recommendations you receive depend on the indexing associated with the journals where you would like to publish. My guess is that the journal you indicated is not good for him in that sense, and that he would like one that helps him towards the research management department

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Seraph77764 t1_isp2h7h wrote

May I ask you why you decided to get a phd and didn’t stop at masters ?

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[deleted] OP t1_isp2nr2 wrote

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Seraph77764 t1_isp38n3 wrote

Oh, ok .. I’m a 34 y/o vet just starting my va degree. I know I want a masters in machine learning, but I was just curious about a phd. I have to work from home and I loved coding so this is the only option, but quite a good one!

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