Software has been a crucial contributor to scientific progress in astronomy for decades, but practices that enable machine-actionable citations have not been consistently applied to software itself. Instead, software citation behaviors developed independently from standard publication mechanisms and policies, resulting in human-readable citations that remain hidden over time and that cannot represent the influence software has had in the field. These historical software citation behaviors need to be understood in order to improve software citation guidance and develop relevant publishing practices that fully support the astronomy community. To this end, a 23 year retrospective analysis of software citation practices in astronomy was developed. Astronomy publications were mined for 410 aliases associated with nine software packages and analyzed to identify past practices and trends that prevent software citations from benefiting software authors.

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信用损失：天文学上两个十年的软件引文

几十年来，软件一直是天文学科学进步的关键贡献者，但是，实现机器可操作引用的实践并未始终如一地应用于软件本身。取而代之的是，软件引用行为独立于标准发布机制和策略而开发，导致人类可读的引用随着时间的流逝而保持隐藏状态，并且不能代表软件在该领域中所具有的影响力。需要了解这些历史软件引用行为，以改善软件引用指南并开发相关的发布实践，以全面支持天文学界。为此，对天文学软件引用实践进行了为期23年的回顾性分析。