Should I cite all the open source python packages I used like numpy in my paper? I used many open-source packages in my research, such as matplotlib, numpy, pandas, scipy, etc. And I found this on the website of SciPy: Citing packages in the SciPy ecosystem. Should I cite every one of them in my paper? (I'd like to cite them but there are so many of them which will make my paper even half or one page longer)
Presumably your research uses your software, which in turn uses and acknowledges open-source packages. Your papers need only cite the software used directly, which is perhaps just your software. You could also mention your software is built from open-source packages, but I don't think that's strictly necessary, since acknowledgements appear in your software.