Citation

If you use PyWatson in your research, please cite it.

Repository

PyWatson is currently available on GitHub: https://github.com/isaac-tes/pywatson

Note: A citable release with a persistent DOI (via Zenodo) will be added once the first stable version is published. This page will be updated with BibTeX, APA, and Chicago-style entries at that time. See Zenodo & Citation for details on how the Zenodo integration is set up.

Current citation (software)

Until a DOI is minted, please cite the GitHub repository:

@software{pywatson,
  author       = {Tesfaye, Isaac},
  title        = {{PyWatson}: A Python scientific project management tool},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://github.com/isaac-tes/pywatson},
  note         = {Version 0.0.1}
}

Inspiration

PyWatson is inspired by DrWatson.jl for the Julia language. If DrWatson.jl was useful in your work, please also consider citing it:

@article{Datseris2020,
  doi = {10.21105/joss.02673},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02673},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {The Open Journal},
  volume = {5},
  number = {54},
  pages = {2673},
  author = {George Datseris and Jonas Isensee and Sebastian Pech and Tamás Gál},
  title = {DrWatson: the perfect sidekick for your scientific inquiries},
  journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}
}