Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review
This article describes the motivation, design, and progress of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). JOSS is a free and open-access journal that publishes articles describing research software. It has the dual goals of improving the quality of the software submitted and providing a mechanism f...
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| author | Smith, Arfon M. Niemeyer, Kyle E. Katz, Daniel S. Barba, Lorena A. Githinji, George Gymrek, Melissa Huff, Kathryn D. Madan, Christopher R. Mayes, Abigail C. Moerman, Kevin M. Prins, Pjotr Ram, Karthik Rokem, Ariel Teal, Tracy K. Valls Guimera, Roman Vanderplas, Jacob T. |
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| description | This article describes the motivation, design, and progress of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). JOSS is a free and open-access journal that publishes articles describing research software. It has the dual goals of improving the quality of the software submitted and providing a mechanism for research software developers to receive credit. While designed to work within the current merit system of science, JOSS addresses the dearth of rewards for key contributions to science made in the form of software. JOSS publishes articles that encapsulate scholarship contained in the software itself, and its rigorous peer review targets the software components: functionality, documentation, tests, continuous integration, and the license. A JOSS article contains an abstract describing the purpose and functionality of the software, references, and a link to the software archive. The article is the entry point of a JOSS submission, which encompasses the full set of software artifacts. Submission and review proceed in the open, on GitHub. Editors, reviewers, and authors work collaboratively and openly. Unlike other journals, JOSS does not reject articles requiring major revision; while not yet accepted, articles remain visible and under review until the authors make adequate changes (or withdraw, if unable to meet requirements). Once an article is accepted, JOSS gives it a DOI, deposits its metadata in Crossref, and the article can begin collecting citations on indexers like Google Scholar and other services. Authors retain copyright of their JOSS article, releasing it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. In its first year, starting in May 2016, JOSS published 111 articles, with more than 40 additional articles currently under review. JOSS is a sponsored project of the nonprofit organization NumFOCUS and is an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative. |
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| spelling | nottingham-493482020-05-04T19:31:54Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49348/ Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review Smith, Arfon M. Niemeyer, Kyle E. Katz, Daniel S. Barba, Lorena A. Githinji, George Gymrek, Melissa Huff, Kathryn D. Madan, Christopher R. Mayes, Abigail C. Moerman, Kevin M. Prins, Pjotr Ram, Karthik Rokem, Ariel Teal, Tracy K. Valls Guimera, Roman Vanderplas, Jacob T. This article describes the motivation, design, and progress of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). JOSS is a free and open-access journal that publishes articles describing research software. It has the dual goals of improving the quality of the software submitted and providing a mechanism for research software developers to receive credit. While designed to work within the current merit system of science, JOSS addresses the dearth of rewards for key contributions to science made in the form of software. JOSS publishes articles that encapsulate scholarship contained in the software itself, and its rigorous peer review targets the software components: functionality, documentation, tests, continuous integration, and the license. A JOSS article contains an abstract describing the purpose and functionality of the software, references, and a link to the software archive. The article is the entry point of a JOSS submission, which encompasses the full set of software artifacts. Submission and review proceed in the open, on GitHub. Editors, reviewers, and authors work collaboratively and openly. Unlike other journals, JOSS does not reject articles requiring major revision; while not yet accepted, articles remain visible and under review until the authors make adequate changes (or withdraw, if unable to meet requirements). Once an article is accepted, JOSS gives it a DOI, deposits its metadata in Crossref, and the article can begin collecting citations on indexers like Google Scholar and other services. Authors retain copyright of their JOSS article, releasing it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. In its first year, starting in May 2016, JOSS published 111 articles, with more than 40 additional articles currently under review. JOSS is a sponsored project of the nonprofit organization NumFOCUS and is an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative. PeerJ 2018-02-12 Article PeerReviewed Smith, Arfon M., Niemeyer, Kyle E., Katz, Daniel S., Barba, Lorena A., Githinji, George, Gymrek, Melissa, Huff, Kathryn D., Madan, Christopher R., Mayes, Abigail C., Moerman, Kevin M., Prins, Pjotr, Ram, Karthik, Rokem, Ariel, Teal, Tracy K., Valls Guimera, Roman and Vanderplas, Jacob T. (2018) Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review. PeerJ Computer Science . ISSN 2376-5992 Research software Code review Computational research Software citation Open-source software Scholarly publishing https://peerj.com/articles/cs-147/ doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.147 doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.147 |
| spellingShingle | Research software Code review Computational research Software citation Open-source software Scholarly publishing Smith, Arfon M. Niemeyer, Kyle E. Katz, Daniel S. Barba, Lorena A. Githinji, George Gymrek, Melissa Huff, Kathryn D. Madan, Christopher R. Mayes, Abigail C. Moerman, Kevin M. Prins, Pjotr Ram, Karthik Rokem, Ariel Teal, Tracy K. Valls Guimera, Roman Vanderplas, Jacob T. Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review |
| title | Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review |
| title_full | Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review |
| title_fullStr | Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review |
| title_short | Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review |
| title_sort | journal of open source software (joss): design and first-year review |
| topic | Research software Code review Computational research Software citation Open-source software Scholarly publishing |
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