Adding metrics to the research impact section

[Armavica]

Hi, as part of the review that I am doing for JOSS openjournals/joss-reviews#10580 I have to evaluate the following point:

Research Impact Statement (required section): Does the paper include a "Research Impact Statement" section providing evidence of realized impact (publications, external use, integrations) or credible near-term significance (benchmarks, reproducible materials, community-readiness signals)? Is the evidence presented compelling?

I am finding the phrasing of this section a bit unclear but if I understand it correctly (this is also what I saw in the Cargo.toml files of the different packages), pharmsol is a Rust dependency of PMcore, which is a Rust package that Pmetrics, a popular R package, has been relying on since its version 3.
If this is correct, and if pharmsol is responsible for a substantial amount of the Pmetrics functionalities, then I think that sharing a few metrics of the v3 of Pmetrics could strengthen your case for the research impact. Perhaps the number of weekly (or monthly) downloads of Pmetrics if you have access to it, or the estimated number of publications external to your group that used Pmetrics v3 --I found several ones with a quick literature search.

[Siel]

Hi @Armavica Thanks a lot for taking the time of reviewing the paper and our project, we appreciate it very much!

I will investigate and try to provide the data you are requesting. It is sometimes difficult to track that number because not all researchers list the version of the package they are using when publishing their results and we have some users still using versions of Pmetrics < 3.0.