SeqDesk · original analysis
Citation adoption for curated MAG quality & curation tools, counted weekly from OpenAlex.
Software health, not citations: GitHub/GitLab stars and last-commit date for each tool’s canonical source repo, as a point-in-time snapshot (2026-06-30). Bars in the last-commit chart show how recently each repo was touched — active, stale, archived or gone. Star bars are tinted to match each tool’s citation line above.
Use cumulative view for long-run adoption and annual view for citation momentum; log scale makes smaller tools readable without changing the counts. Counts are annual OpenAlex cited-by tallies and reflect all uses of each paper, not only use inside the selected workflow; broad tools can therefore look larger than workflow-specific methods. The still-filling current year (2026) is omitted from the lines.
The leading MAG quality & curation tool is recomputed for each complete calendar year by cumulative citations — a 1-way hand-off across 11 years.
cites: grouped by year when available; counts_by_year fallback when the grouped endpoint is budget-limited)scripts/check-tool-trends.mjs| Tool | Group | Lifetime citations | Peak year | Source | Stars | Last commit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CheckM | MAG quality & curation | 12,807 | 2025 (2.2K/yr) | GitHub ↗ | 410 | 4 mo ago | active |
| dRep | MAG quality & curation | 3,153 | 2025 (698/yr) | GitHub ↗ | 347 | this month | active |
| CheckM2 | MAG quality & curation | 1,383 | 2025 (583/yr) | GitHub ↗ | 268 | 1.3 yr ago | active |
A curated cohort of MAG quality & curation tools, each tracked by the full citation history of its method paper — re-counted weekly straight from the OpenAlex citation graph. Only the published method papers and their public citation counts are used. · show all tool groups · back to all research data