What makes a popular academic AI repository?

Yuanrui Fan, Xin Xia 0001, David Lo 0001, Ahmed E. Hassan, Shanping Li. What makes a popular academic AI repository?. Empirical Software Engineering, 26(1):2, 2021. [doi]

@article{FanXLHL21,
  title = {What makes a popular academic AI repository?},
  author = {Yuanrui Fan and Xin Xia 0001 and David Lo 0001 and Ahmed E. Hassan and Shanping Li},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.1007/s10664-020-09916-6},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-020-09916-6},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/FanXLHL21},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  journal = {Empirical Software Engineering},
  volume = {26},
  number = {1},
  pages = {2},
}