GitHub rankings and its impact on the local free software development community
Juan Julián Merelo, Israel Blancas, M. G. Arenas, Fernando Tricas, José Antonio Vacas, Nuria Rico · 2015
Creating rankings might seem like a vain exercise in belly-button gazing, even more so for people so unlike that kind of things as programmers. However, in this paper we will try to prove how creating city (or province) based on rankings in Spain has led to all kinds of interesting effects, including increased productivity and community building.