References and acknowledgements
Cite this book
This Germany-focused book was developed at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) within the federated FutuRSI project.
Haddad, D.; Project FutuRSI (2026). Analysis Book for the International RSE Survey (Germany Focus). Source repository.
Book license
Except where otherwise noted, the text and figures in this book are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). You may share and adapt this material, including for commercial purposes, provided you give appropriate credit, link to the license, and indicate any changes. Use the book citation above when attributing this publication, and retain the survey-data attribution below when reusing its results.
Logos and third-party material are excluded from this book license and remain subject to their respective rights and license terms. The underlying software remains under the MIT License; the source survey data have their own CC BY 4.0 license and attribution requirements.
Cite the FutuRSI community-feedback report
Project FutuRSI. (2026). Report on Community Feedback No. 2: Perspectives of Germany’s RSE Community from the International RSE Survey. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22743816
Cite the survey dataset
The results are derived from the openly licensed RSE Survey longitudinal dataset. Please cite the dataset separately:
Hettrick, S.; Bast, R.; Botzki, A.; Carver, J.; Cosden, I.; Crouch, S.; D’Andrea, F.; Dasgupta, A.; Donnay, M.; Godoy, W.; Gonzalez-Beltran, A.; Hamster, U.; Henwood, S.; Holmvall, P.; Janosch, S.; Kijewska, W.; Lestang, T.; May, N.; Packer, H.; Philippe, O.; Philips, J.; Poonawala-Lohani, N.; Richmond, P.; Sinha, M.; Thiery, F.; van Werkhoven, B.; Wyatt, C.; and Zhang, Q. (2026). RSE Survey longitudinal dataset (v2026.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21258278
The dataset publisher requests the following attribution:
The University of Edinburgh on behalf of the Institute for Research Software (previously the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI)).
For the German survey data, the listed collaborators are Stephan Janosch, Martin Hammitzsch, Simon Hettrick, and Olivier Philippe. The source data and question metadata are available from the softwaresaved/RSE_survey_longitudinal repository under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Cite the source software
This project was derived from software created for the Nordic-focused analysis book. Please also cite that work:
Bockting, F., & Wittke, S. (2026). Analysis Book for the International RSE Survey 2026 (Nordic Focus) (Version 0.1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21716004
The original software was created by Florence Bockting (Aalto University, ORCID 0000-0003-0924-6413) and Samantha Wittke (CSC – IT Center for Science, Aalto University, and the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, ORCID 0000-0002-9625-7235).
Acknowledgements and provenance
We gratefully acknowledge the Institute for Research Software International Survey Committee and all survey collaborators for creating, coordinating, and maintaining the International RSE Survey and its longitudinal dataset.
The Germany-focused survey books and website were developed by Dhia Haddad (ORCID 0000-0001-6816-3672) at HZDR within FutuRSI. The software is distributed under the MIT License.
This publication filters, groups, summarises, visualises, and otherwise transforms the source data. It is an independent analysis and is not presented as an official publication or endorsement by the dataset publisher, survey committee, or collaborators.