[gdevenyi]

Summary

This pull request adds a CITATION.cff file (Citation File Format 1.2.0). GitHub uses the file on the default branch for the "Cite this repository" button.

The author list is the result of an audit of this repository on the develop-1.9.18 branch (and on master): the commit history, and the history that is recorded in the files (RCS $Log$ entries, MNI header fields, copyright lines, AUTHORS, ChangeLog entries).

This is one of 28 pull requests: one for minc-toolkit-v2 and one for each BIC-MNI submodule. The same rules apply to all of them. The list is a proposal. Change it if you do not agree.

Rules

Who is an author. A person is in authors when the history or the files identify that person as a writer of code or documentation in this repository. There is no minimum number of commits. (README.release in libminc says "Authors should be sourced from recent commits", and the AUTHORS files of the MINC packages also name people who made small contributions.)

Not in authors: people who are only thanked or who reported problems; the authors of bundled third-party code; bots and AI tools; identities that could not be resolved to a person.

Order. First the authors that the repository itself names first (AUTHORS, COPYING, README), in that order. Then all others by score. The score is the largest of these three numbers: commits, RCS log revisions in the file headers, files that credit the person. Equal scores are in alphabetical order.

Person data. An ORCID iD is present only where the ORCID record confirms the person (works or employment). E-mail and affiliation are present only for the three people who have them in the minc-toolkit-v2 file.

Authors and evidence (37)

#	Author	Evidence
1	Peter Neelin	named first by the repository (AUTHORS: designed, coded, and maintained MINC (1992-2002)); 382 commits (1992-2002); 281 RCS log revisions in file headers (1993-2002)
2	David MacDonald	named first by the repository (AUTHORS: designed, coded, and maintained VolumeIO (1991-1998)); 331 commits (1992-1998)
3	Vladimir Fonov	449 commits (2011-2026); AUTHORS; copyright lines in ezminc, libsrc
4	Robert D. Vincent	436 commits (2003-2016); 73 RCS log revisions in file headers (2003-2006); AUTHORS; libcommon, libsrc2 author lines
5	Sean McBride	184 commits (2013-2025); AUTHORS (many warning fixes)
6	Andrew L. Janke	126 commits (2003-2014); 28 RCS log revisions in file headers (2007-2010); AUTHORS
7	Leila Baghdadi	94 commits (2003-2012); AUTHORS; libsrc2 author lines
8	Steve M. Robbins	66 commits (2002-2015); 19 RCS log revisions in file headers (2003-2010); AUTHORS
9	Gabriel A. Devenyi	20 commits (2016-2026)
10	Claude Lepage	16 commits (2006-2010); AUTHORS
11	Matt McCormick	8 commits (2012-2021)
12	Hans J. Johnson	5 commits (2026)
13	John Cupitt	4 commits (2011)
14	Jonathan Harlap	4 commits (2006-2007)
15	Haz-Edine Assemlal	3 commits (2012)
16	Matthijs van Eede	2 commits (2013); volume_io/MNI_formats @MODIFIED
17	Jason Lerch	3 commits (2002-2003); AUTHORS
18	Benjamin A. Beasley	2 commits (2025)
19	Shai Berger	2 commits (2022)
20	Francois Budin	2 commits (2017)
21	D. Louis Collins	volume_io/MNI_formats/grid_transforms.c, thin_plate_spline.c @CREATED
22	Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso	2 commits (2012)
23	Chris Hammill	2 commits (2016-2020)
24	Cristian Le	2 commits (2025)
25	Bradley Lowekamp	2 commits (2017)
26	John G. Sled	AUTHORS
27	Martin Steghöfer	2 commits (2014)
28	Dženan Zukić	2 commits (2021-2024)
29	Weiqian Dai	volume_io/MNI_formats/thin_plate_spline.c: code written by Weiqian Dai
30	Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin	1 commit (2017)
31	Brian Helba	1 commit (2014)
32	Colin Holmes	AUTHORS
33	David Leonard	AUTHORS (original minccalc parser)
34	Ilana Leppert	AUTHORS (dcm2mnc DTI additions)
35	Jim Nikelski	1 commit (2011)
36	Jonathan Taylor	libsrc/voxel_loop.c @CREATED (J. Taylor)
37	Simon Fristed Eskildsen	commit 1e9a99a: fixes for memory leaks in volume_io from Simon Eskildsen

Publications

The bibliographic data comes from Crossref.

• references: Vincent, Neelin, Khalili-Mahani et al. (2016). MINC 2.0: A Flexible Format for Multi-Modal Images. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 10:35. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2016.00035

Named in the repository, but not in authors

Thanked, or named for reports, test data or supervision:

• Maxime Descoteaux, Natasa Kovacevic, Jerome Redoute (problem reports)
• "Soren" (commit fe5f944)

Bundled third-party code:

• nifti/ (NIfTI-1 C library: Robert W. Cox, Mark Jenkinson, Rick Reynolds)
• libcommon/ParseArgv.* (Regents of the University of California)

Not resolved to a person, or not a person:

• swmgr: 2 commits in 2002 (shared account; the ChangeLog signs that address as Steve Robbins)
• 7 commits by an automated agent (Copilot). The person in the Co-authored-by line gets the credit.

Notes for the maintainers

• libminc and minc-tools share the history of the former minc repository (2568 common commits). Commits are counted for libminc only when they change a path outside conversion/, progs/ and Testing/.
• AUTHORS is also from the former minc repository. Colin Holmes, David Leonard and Ilana Leppert are listed because AUTHORS names them; their code is now in minc-tools.
• libsrc/voxel_loop.c has @CREATED "J. Taylor" (August 2000). This is taken to be Jonathan Taylor, who wrote glim_image with Peter Neelin in the same period; glim_image uses the voxel loop.

Validation

cffconvert --validate and the CFF 1.2.0 JSON schema accept the file.

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