DOI and software citation

Cite Nodus Research

Nodus Research is the open-source project behind Nodus. If the application contributes substantially to published work, cite the exact software version you used; use the conceptual DOI when you need to refer to the project across all releases.

Nodus project DOI CITATION.cff

01 · Citation details

The identity behind the citation.

Nodus Research is the project and Nodus is the software. The archived release below is the current desktop version.

Project: Nodus Research
Software: Nodus
Version: 5.0.6
Released: 28 August 2026
Release tag: v5.0.6
Author: Jorge Pérez Burgueño · ORCID
Licence: AGPL-3.0-only

02 · Choose a DOI

One project DOI. One DOI for each release.

Zenodo keeps the distinction explicit. Cite the version DOI for reproducible research; use the conceptual DOI when discussing Nodus Research as a continuing project.

All versions · conceptual DOI

Nodus Research over time

This persistent identifier represents every archived release and resolves through the complete version history.

10.5281/zenodo.21515531

Nodus 5.0.6 · archive pending

Version DOI pending

Zenodo assigns the immutable DOI after this release is archived. Until then, cite the conceptual DOI and the v5.0.6 release tag shown here.

v5.0.6

03 · Citation formats

Ready to paste, still worth checking.

Adapt punctuation and capitalisation to the style guide used by your journal, institution or repository.

APA

Pérez Burgueño, J., & Nodus contributors. (2026). Nodus: Open-Source Research Workspace (Version 5.0.6) [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21515531

BibTeX

@software{perez_burgueno_nodus_2026,
  author    = {Pérez Burgueño, Jorge and Nodus contributors},
  title     = {Nodus: Open-Source Research Workspace},
  version   = {5.0.6},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.21515531},
  url       = {https://github.com/Drakonis96/nodus/releases/tag/v5.0.6},
  license   = {AGPL-3.0-only}
}

Machine-readable citation. GitHub reads the repository's CITATION.cff, which carries the same version, release date, DOI, author, ORCID and licence.

04 · Records and licence

Follow the citation back to the source.

The archive, source repository and researcher identifier are public and cross-linked so the record can be checked independently.