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GRASS Citation Repository

2025-08-21T11:05:32Z

Gisix: Added Google Scholar citation metrics

== How to cite GRASS GIS ==

Please cite GRASS when using the software in your work. Here are some choices depending on the version used and the type of citation:

* GRASS GIS Manual citations,
* Peer reviewed general GRASS GIS articles,
* Books,
* Topic oriented citations.

Please select below:

=== GRASS GIS Manual citations ===

DOI (for all versions, shows latest release on top): [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 10.5281/zenodo.5176030]

* '''[https://www.fair4g.org/grass.html Overview of all DOI-based references to GRASS in scientific publications (according to CrossRef)]'''
* '''[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gJ0ZB0cAAAAJ Overview of all references to GRASS in scientific publications (according to Google Scholar)]'''

Software:
* GRASS Development Team, 2022. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 8.2. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 10.5281/zenodo.5176030]
* GRASS Development Team, 2017. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 7.2. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 10.5281/zenodo.5176030]
* GRASS Development Team, 2016. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 7.0. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 10.5281/zenodo.5176030]
* GRASS Development Team, 2015. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 6.4. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 10.5281/zenodo.5176030]

Programmer's manual:
* GRASS Development Team, 2024. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS 8) Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/programming8/
* GRASS Development Team, 2017. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS 7) Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/
* GRASS Development Team, 2015. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS 6) Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/programming6/

Related BibTeX entry:
<pre>
@Manual{GRASS_GIS_software,
title = {Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS) Software, Version 8.2},
author = {{GRASS Development Team}},
organization = {Open Source Geospatial Foundation},
year = {2022},
url = {https://grass.osgeo.org},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030}
}
</pre>

=== Historical manual pages ===
(Search US Army documents at https://discover.dtic.mil/products-services/)

* Predicting Database Requirements for Geographic Information Systems in the Year 2000: Long-Term Design Issues for GRASS (1992): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA256862.pdf
* Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Version 4.0 User's Reference Manual (1992): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA255218.pdf
* GRASS/GIS Implementation Guide (1989): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA214623.pdf
* r.mapcalc: An Algebra for GIS and Image Processing (1984): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA283923.pdf
* FORT HOOD GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM: PILOT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND USER INSTRUCTIONS (1983): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA130618.pdf

=== GRASS GIS Addon Manual citations ===

Hint: when citing addons, you can simply use "grass-stable" in the URL which is auto-expanded to the latest version (e.g. grass82/). Like this the latest addon version is found.

Example:
* M. Lennert and GRASS Development Team, 2017: “Addon i.segment.stats. Geographic resources analysis support system (GRASS) software, version 7.2”, https://grass.osgeo.org/grass7/manuals/addons/i.segment.stats.html (1 June 2017)

=== Peer reviewed general GRASS GIS articles ===

* Neteler, M., Bowman, M.H., Landa, M., Metz, M., 2012. GRASS GIS: A multi-purpose open source GIS. Environ Model Soft 31, 124–130. ([https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.11.014 DOI] | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120424040115/https://gis.cri.fmach.it/uploads/neteler_grass_env_model_software.pdf PDF])
* Neteler, M., Bowman, M.H., Landa, M., Metz, M. (2012) "GRASS GIS: A multi-purpose open source GIS." Environmental Modelling & Software. Vol 31, pp. 124–130. ([https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.11.014 DOI] | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120424040115/https://gis.cri.fmach.it/uploads/neteler_grass_env_model_software.pdf PDF])

Related Bibtex entry:
<pre>
@article{neteler2012grass,
title={{GRASS GIS: a multi-purpose Open Source GIS}},
author={Neteler, M. and Bowman, M.H. and Landa, M. and Metz, M.},
journal={Environmental Modelling \& Software},
year={2012},
volume = {31},
pages = {124--130},
publisher={Elsevier},
doi = "10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.11.014"
}
</pre>

=== Books ===
* See https://grass.osgeo.org/learn/books/

=== Topic oriented citations ===
* see [[Citations for specific modules]]
* Citations of [[GRASS in the wild]] (add your publications here)

=== Historic citations ===


* GRASS Development Team, 2021. GRASS GIS 7 Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation, USA. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/
* GRASS Development Team, 2016. GRASS 6 Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation, USA. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/programming6/
* GRASS Development Team, 2012. GRASS 6.4 Users Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation, USA. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/
* GRASS Development Team, 2007. GRASS 6.2 Users Manual. ITC-irst, Trento, Italy. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass62/manuals/
* GRASS Development Team, 2002. GRASS 5.0 Users Manual. ITC-irst, Trento, Italy. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass57/manuals/html57_user/
* U.S. Army CERL, 1993. GRASS 4.1 Reference Manual. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, Illinois, 1-425.
* Westervelt, J.D., Shapiro, M., Goran, W.D., Gerdes, D.P. (1992). Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Version 4.0 User's Reference Manual (No. CERL-ADP-N-87/22). CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB (ARMY) CHAMPAIGN IL. (PDF: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA255218.pdf)
* Shapiro, M., Westervelt, J., Gerdes, D., Higgins, M., & Larson, M. (1989). GRASS 3.0 programmer's manual (No. CERL-ADP-N-89/14). CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB (ARMY) CHAMPAIGN IL. (PDF: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA252461.pdf)
* ''Missing: Manuals of GRASS 1.0 and 2.0 - please submit to us!''


* Newsletter citations
** GRASSHopper CERL, https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history/
** [[Newsletter citations Vol1]] 2004
** [[Newsletter citations Vol2]] 2005
** [[Newsletter citations Vol3]] 2005
** [[Newsletter citations Vol4]] 2006

== Helpful tools and GRASS related bibliographic searches ==
* [https://grass.osgeo.org/grass-stable/manuals/addons/g.citation.html g.citation add-on module]
* Google Scholar:
** [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=GRASS+GIS Search for "GRASS GIS"] (activate BibTex export in "Scholar preferences")
** The virtual [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gJ0ZB0cAAAAJ GRASS Development Team] - GRASS GIS related papers
* [https://www.citeulike.org CiteULike] - [https://www.citeulike.org/tag/grass Search for "GRASS"]
* [https://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/ Bibutils] bibliography conversion utilities
* [https://gbib.seul.org Gbib BibTeX editor] for GTK+Gnome
* [https://jabref.sourceforge.net/ JabRef] Multi-platform, multi-format bibliography tool
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/gis Zotero citation manager GIS group] - with all known GRASS GIS and other GIS related references
* [[GRASS in the wild‎]]

[[Category:Citations]]
[[Category:Documentation]]
[[Category:FAQ]]

GRASS Citation Repository

2025-08-21T07:08:22Z

Gisix: Added external link to statistics for DOI-based references to GRASS on FAIR4G.org (daily updated)

== How to cite GRASS GIS ==

Please cite GRASS when using the software in your work. Here are some choices depending on the version used and the type of citation:

* GRASS GIS Manual citations,
* Peer reviewed general GRASS GIS articles,
* Books,
* Topic oriented citations.

Please select below:

=== GRASS GIS Manual citations ===

DOI (for all versions, shows latest release on top): [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 10.5281/zenodo.5176030]

[https://www.fair4g.org/grass.html Overview of all DOI-based references to GRASS in scientific publications (according to CrossRef)]

Software:
* GRASS Development Team, 2022. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 8.2. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 10.5281/zenodo.5176030]
* GRASS Development Team, 2017. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 7.2. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 10.5281/zenodo.5176030]
* GRASS Development Team, 2016. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 7.0. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 10.5281/zenodo.5176030]
* GRASS Development Team, 2015. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 6.4. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 10.5281/zenodo.5176030]

Programmer's manual:
* GRASS Development Team, 2024. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS 8) Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/programming8/
* GRASS Development Team, 2017. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS 7) Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/
* GRASS Development Team, 2015. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS 6) Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/programming6/

Related BibTeX entry:
<pre>
@Manual{GRASS_GIS_software,
title = {Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS) Software, Version 8.2},
author = {{GRASS Development Team}},
organization = {Open Source Geospatial Foundation},
year = {2022},
url = {https://grass.osgeo.org},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030}
}
</pre>

=== Historical manual pages ===
(Search US Army documents at https://discover.dtic.mil/products-services/)

* Predicting Database Requirements for Geographic Information Systems in the Year 2000: Long-Term Design Issues for GRASS (1992): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA256862.pdf
* Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Version 4.0 User's Reference Manual (1992): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA255218.pdf
* GRASS/GIS Implementation Guide (1989): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA214623.pdf
* r.mapcalc: An Algebra for GIS and Image Processing (1984): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA283923.pdf
* FORT HOOD GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM: PILOT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND USER INSTRUCTIONS (1983): https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA130618.pdf

=== GRASS GIS Addon Manual citations ===

Hint: when citing addons, you can simply use "grass-stable" in the URL which is auto-expanded to the latest version (e.g. grass82/). Like this the latest addon version is found.

Example:
* M. Lennert and GRASS Development Team, 2017: “Addon i.segment.stats. Geographic resources analysis support system (GRASS) software, version 7.2”, https://grass.osgeo.org/grass7/manuals/addons/i.segment.stats.html (1 June 2017)

=== Peer reviewed general GRASS GIS articles ===

* Neteler, M., Bowman, M.H., Landa, M., Metz, M., 2012. GRASS GIS: A multi-purpose open source GIS. Environ Model Soft 31, 124–130. ([https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.11.014 DOI] | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120424040115/https://gis.cri.fmach.it/uploads/neteler_grass_env_model_software.pdf PDF])
* Neteler, M., Bowman, M.H., Landa, M., Metz, M. (2012) "GRASS GIS: A multi-purpose open source GIS." Environmental Modelling & Software. Vol 31, pp. 124–130. ([https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.11.014 DOI] | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120424040115/https://gis.cri.fmach.it/uploads/neteler_grass_env_model_software.pdf PDF])

Related Bibtex entry:
<pre>
@article{neteler2012grass,
title={{GRASS GIS: a multi-purpose Open Source GIS}},
author={Neteler, M. and Bowman, M.H. and Landa, M. and Metz, M.},
journal={Environmental Modelling \& Software},
year={2012},
volume = {31},
pages = {124--130},
publisher={Elsevier},
doi = "10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.11.014"
}
</pre>

=== Books ===
* See https://grass.osgeo.org/learn/books/

=== Topic oriented citations ===
* see [[Citations for specific modules]]
* Citations of [[GRASS in the wild]] (add your publications here)

=== Historic citations ===


* GRASS Development Team, 2021. GRASS GIS 7 Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation, USA. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/
* GRASS Development Team, 2016. GRASS 6 Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation, USA. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/programming6/
* GRASS Development Team, 2012. GRASS 6.4 Users Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation, USA. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/
* GRASS Development Team, 2007. GRASS 6.2 Users Manual. ITC-irst, Trento, Italy. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass62/manuals/
* GRASS Development Team, 2002. GRASS 5.0 Users Manual. ITC-irst, Trento, Italy. Electronic document: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass57/manuals/html57_user/
* U.S. Army CERL, 1993. GRASS 4.1 Reference Manual. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, Illinois, 1-425.
* Westervelt, J.D., Shapiro, M., Goran, W.D., Gerdes, D.P. (1992). Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Version 4.0 User's Reference Manual (No. CERL-ADP-N-87/22). CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB (ARMY) CHAMPAIGN IL. (PDF: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA255218.pdf)
* Shapiro, M., Westervelt, J., Gerdes, D., Higgins, M., & Larson, M. (1989). GRASS 3.0 programmer's manual (No. CERL-ADP-N-89/14). CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB (ARMY) CHAMPAIGN IL. (PDF: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA252461.pdf)
* ''Missing: Manuals of GRASS 1.0 and 2.0 - please submit to us!''


* Newsletter citations
** GRASSHopper CERL, https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history/
** [[Newsletter citations Vol1]] 2004
** [[Newsletter citations Vol2]] 2005
** [[Newsletter citations Vol3]] 2005
** [[Newsletter citations Vol4]] 2006

== Helpful tools and GRASS related bibliographic searches ==
* [https://grass.osgeo.org/grass-stable/manuals/addons/g.citation.html g.citation add-on module]
* Google Scholar:
** [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=GRASS+GIS Search for "GRASS GIS"] (activate BibTex export in "Scholar preferences")
** The virtual [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gJ0ZB0cAAAAJ GRASS Development Team] - GRASS GIS related papers
* [https://www.citeulike.org CiteULike] - [https://www.citeulike.org/tag/grass Search for "GRASS"]
* [https://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/ Bibutils] bibliography conversion utilities
* [https://gbib.seul.org Gbib BibTeX editor] for GTK+Gnome
* [https://jabref.sourceforge.net/ JabRef] Multi-platform, multi-format bibliography tool
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/gis Zotero citation manager GIS group] - with all known GRASS GIS and other GIS related references
* [[GRASS in the wild‎]]

[[Category:Citations]]
[[Category:Documentation]]
[[Category:FAQ]]

List of GRASS GIS conferences and meetings

2024-04-07T10:54:18Z

Gisix: /* Hosting agencies for the GRASS conferences */ Addey wayback machine link for 2022

= Hosting agencies for the GRASS conferences =

* ''(pls complete; see also category below)...''
* (2006) FOSS4G 2006 - Open Source Geospatial Communities JOINT CONFERENCE - September 12-15, 2006. Lausanne, Switzerland. See [http://2006.foss4g.org/ Web site]
* (2006) 7th Italian GRASS Meeting at University of Genova, Italy
* (2005) 6th Italian GRASS Meeting at University of Rome, Italy
* (2004) Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics: GIS-GRASS User Conference 2004, Bangkok, Thailand. September 12-14, 2004. See [https://foss4g.asia/2004/ Web site]
* (2004) 5th Italian GRASS Meeting at University of Padova, Italy. See [http://web.archive.org/web/20071110182752/http://www.daur.unipd.it/grass/index.htm Web site]
* (2003) 4th Italian GRASS Meeting at University of Firenze, Italy. February 13-14, 2003. See [http://web.archive.org/web/20031209181004/http://www.masterleaves.unifi.it/grass/ Web site]
* (2002) Open Source Free Software GIS - GRASS users conference 2002, Trento, Italy. September 11-13, 2002. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20030311060643/http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/conferences/GRASS2002/home.html Web site]
* (2002) 3rd Italian GRASS Meeting at University of Trieste, Italy
* (2001) 1st German GRASS Meeting at University of Mainz, Germany
* (2001) 2nd Italian GRASS Meeting at University of Trento, Italy. February 1-2, 2001. See [http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/conferences/GRASS2001/grass_days_2001/en/grass_meeting_trento_1-2_2_2001.html Web site]
* (2000) 1st Italian GRASS Meeting at Como, Italy
* 9th Annual GRASS GIS User's Conference and Exhibition (Sponsored by the Open GIS Foundation, Hosted by the Soil Conservation Service, March 13-18,'94 Reston Virginia), USA
* (1994) Paris, France (5TH European GRASS Users Meeting)
* (1993) Reston, Va. USGS, SCS, FBI, USA
* (1992) Denver, National Park Service, USA
* (1990) UC Berkeley, USA
* (1989) Alexandria, Va. Soil Conservation Service, USA
* (1988) Champaign, USA CERL, USA
* (1987) National Space Technology Lab, Stennis Space Center
* (1986) Fort Lewis, Washington
* (1985) Fort Hood, Texas

[[Category: Conferences]]