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

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.