.. _citing:

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Acknowledging Yade
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We kindly ask Yade users to cite this documentation as a whole in scientific publications as a way to assess Yade's contribution to their field.
It can be done using the following reference:

- \ V. Šmilauer et al. (2021), Yade Documentation 3rd ed. The Yade Project. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.34073 (http://yade-dem.org/doc/)

Beyond acknowledging the work of the developpers, it helps finding new use cases or new users by tracking the citations on `Yade's Scholar profile <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hZB8GGcAAAAJ&hl=en>`_.






