Journal of Open Source Software

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Journal of Open Source Software
OCLC no.
971252162
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The Journal of Open Source Software is a

open-access scientific journal covering open-source software from any research discipline.[1][2][3] The journal was founded in 2016 by editors Arfon Smith, Kyle Niemeyer, Dan Katz, Kevin Moerman, and Karthik Ram.[1][4] The editor-in-chief is Arfon Smith (Space Telescope Science Institute),[5] and associate editors-in-chief: Dan Foreman-Mackey, Olivia Guest, Daniel Katz, Kevin Moerman, Kyle Niemeyer, George Thiruvathukal, and Krysten Thyng (retired: Lorena A. Barba). The journal is a sponsored project of NumFOCUS and an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative.[6] The journal uses GitHub as publishing platform.[7]

The journal was established in May 2016 and in its first year published 111 articles, with more than 40 additional articles under review.[1] They reported approximately 1200 published articles in March 2021.[8]

The journal has been discussed in several peer-reviewed papers which describe its publishing model and its effectiveness.[1][9]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Astrophysics Data System and in the DBLP computer science bibliography online database.

References

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  4. ^ Moore, Madison (9 May 2016). "Journal of Open Source Software helps researchers write and publish papers on software - SD Times". SD Times.
  5. ^ Singh Chawla, Dalmeet (5 February 2018). "Open Source Software Deleted? A Code Archive Could Help". Undark. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  6. ^ Perkel, Jeffrey (4 April 2017). "TechBlog: JOSS gives computational scientists their academic due". Naturejobs Blog. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
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  8. ^ Blog, Journal of Open Source Software (30 March 2021). "Call for editors | Journal of Open Source Software Blog". blog.joss.theoj.org. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
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