📘 Why Cite InsightStack?

You might wonder — it’s just a GitHub repo, why does it have a citation?

The answer is simple: good documentation deserves credit.

🔍 This Isn’t Just Code

InsightStack contains:

Templates and tools built over years of work in public health, WEE, education, and climate
Reusable logic, planning calculators, and knowledge SOPs
Institutional workflows for MEL and research projects

Every method, assumption, and format in here has been used in real programs. Citing it acknowledges that this thinking — not just code — has value.

🧪 Research Repos Are Still Research

Open code is increasingly cited in academic and policy work. GitHub + Zenodo integration allows repositories like InsightStack to have a DOI — a Digital Object Identifier — just like journal articles or datasets.

This lets others reference it properly in reports, evaluations, and learning notes.

🧭 When You Should Cite This

If you’re using a calculator from this repo in your own program design
If you’re adapting SOPs or logic templates for MEL or learning systems
If you’re referencing how documentation or institutional memory can be structured

Use the citation block from the README, or just link to the Zenodo record.

🎓 Citation (copy-paste version)

Varna Sri Raman. (2025). InsightStack: Knowledge Documentation for Development Research [Data & Tools]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15245182

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