Re: st: Responding to a Reviewer's Concern about an Ado

[Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>]

On Thu, 19 May 2011, Michael C. Morrison wrote:

> A reviewer of a proposed publication of mine is questioning the use of a 
> user-written program that I utilized in the analysis. I'm not sure if the 
> reviewer is familiar with Stata and ados.
>
> This particular ado is the primary tool utilized in a Sage publication 
> regarding the subject at hand (which I will point out to the editor and 
> through him to the reviewer.) I'm wondering, how does one find the number of 
> downloads of the ado through ssc. I know there are other ways that users can 
> obtain ados but I suspect ssc downloads would give me a decent number of 
> people using the program. Any other ideas would be appreciated. In advance. 
> Thanks.

I don't think the number of downloads would be very relevant. Perhaps 
citations to other papers by well-respected authors using the same 
package would be more convincing? Perhaps you could mention the program 
name here, or look it up in Google Scholar to find users.


Daniel Feenberg

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