We are the 92%: Valuing the contribution of research software

•In a recent survey conducted by the Software Sustainability Institute of UK research-intensive universities, 92% of researchers said they used research software and 68% said their research would be impossible without software. Yet only 4% of jobs advertised were software related, and we have seen many issues trying to establish career paths that recognise the development of research software as a valued contribution to the community. In this session, I will summarise some of the various initiatives that the Software Sustainability Institute has participated in to raise the profile of software, from public campaigns to better citations, and from training to software journals. Ultimately, I will argue that it is only be reexamining the way that credit is currently given for scholarly communication that we can change the culture around software, by showing that reuse is as significant as novelty or journal impact factor.