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Every repository discovered and reviewed-in across the 34 CURIOSS member institutions — the cross-university view of research software made by the community.

Created 7/21/2026 - Last updated 7/26/2026

17.5K

Projects

9.1M commits

246.9K

Recognition

217.7K citing papers · 1.8K canonical works

2.0M

Reach

95.8K external users · 3079.0M downloads

10.5K

Repositories at risk

70% of 15.0K evaluated · 4.5K healthy · 2.5K unverified

15.6K

Without canonical credit

of 17.5K · 11% have detected canonical

20.1K unwrapped

Metadata coverage

repo → publication funnel

Projects in this portfolio17,538100%

with any publication linkage3,03917%

with canonical paper detected1,94811%

distinct canonical works1,77110%

canonical

2,294

mentions

3,214

paper

800

Of 17,538 projects in this portfolio, 14,499 (83%) have no detected publication linkage of any kind. These gaps are part of the story — software metadata in the wild is often missing.

Top recognized work

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Most-cited publications representing software in this portfolio — the academic credit going to these projects. Items marked "detection gap" are likely portfolio software whose canonical link our pipeline failed to record.

1.
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
37,869 citations · 10.1109/mcse.2007.55
2.
Array programming with NumPy
detection gap
20,849 citations · should be canonical for numpy · 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2
3.
VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics
10,849 citations · 10.7717/peerj.2584
4.
LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales
10,466 citations · canonical for 4 repos · 10.1016/j.cpc.2021.108171
5.
MultiQC: summarize analysis results for multiple tools and samples in a single report
10,132 citations · canonical for 3 repos · 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw354
6.
<scp>UCSF ChimeraX</scp>: Structure visualization for researchers, educators, and developers
9,675 citations · 10.1002/pro.3943
7.
3D Slicer as an image computing platform for the Quantitative Imaging Network
8,526 citations · canonical for 2 repos · 10.1016/j.mri.2012.05.001
8.
The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome
8,306 citations · canonical for 2 repos · 10.7554/elife.34408
9.
scikit-image: image processing in Python
6,689 citations · canonical for 4 repos · 10.7717/peerj.453
10.
Julia: A Fresh Approach to Numerical Computing
6,011 citations · canonical for 5 repos · 10.1137/141000671

External foundational dependencies

Upstream tools the portfolio depends on whose home repos are not in this portfolio. The citation counts here belong to the cited work — they show what these projects are built on, not what this portfolio is cited for.

1.
R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing
352,818 citations · used by 1 repo · 10.32614/r.manuals
2.
Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data
68,989 citations · used by 1 repo · 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu170
3.
Cutadapt removes adapter sequences from high-throughput sequencing reads
35,388 citations · used by 2 repos · 10.14806/ej.17.1.200
4.
Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-Based Localization
20,408 citations · used by 1 repo · 10.1109/iccv.2017.74
5.
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
16,588 citations · used by 1 repo · 10.1038/sdata.2016.18
6.
Minimap2: pairwise alignment for nucleotide sequences
16,048 citations · used by 2 repos · 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty191
7.
Development and Testing of the OPLS All-Atom Force Field on Conformational Energetics and Properties of Organic Liquids
15,213 citations · used by 1 repo · 10.1021/ja9621760
8.
Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation
12,461 citations · used by 1 repo · 10.1063/1.4812323
9.
CD-HIT: accelerated for clustering the next-generation sequencing data
11,412 citations · used by 1 repo · 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts565
10.
Data Structures for Statistical Computing in Python
10,787 citations · used by 1 repo · 10.25080/majora-92bf1922-00a

People & places

Bridge contributors

19,497

people contribute to 2+ projects in this portfolio · 33% of all contributors

Top citing institutions

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(FR)7,106
Harvard University(US)3,392
University of Oxford(GB)3,202
University of Cambridge(GB)2,936
Chinese Academy of Sciences(CN)2,719

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Impact

246.9K

Total Citations

217.7K

Citing Papers

5.3K

Linked Publications

205.7K

Software Dependents

576.6K

Citing Authors

30.0K

Citing Institutions

Biochemistry, Genetics...

Top Citing Field

	Portfolio	Citing
Domains	4	4
Fields	25	26
Subfields	182	247
Topics	1047	3984

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Dependencies

1.7M

Total Dependencies

Ecosystems

1.2K

Research SW Links

1.0K

Hidden Found

Ecosystem	Packages
pypi	579422
npm	526339
actions	206592
conda	154824

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Community

11511 items at risk — review sustainability

66.0K

Total People

Retention Rate

33.9%

Intl. Collaboration

105 pubs · 11406 repos

At Risk

	Pubs	Repos
Core	616	...
Active	1138	58613
Bus Factor	-	1

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MCP Ecosystem

20089 entities have no MCP wrapper — potential funding gaps

20.1K

Unwrapped Entities

20.1K

Portfolio Entities

280

Wrapping Servers

100%

Gap Rate

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