The Journal of Open Source Software is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages. JOSS is designed to make it as easy as possible to create a software paper for your work. If a piece of software is already well documented, then paper preparation (and submission) should take no more than an hour.
The JOSS paper is deliberately extremely short and only allowed to include:
JOSS papers are not permitted to contain novel results.
Our checklist-driven review process is completely open, happens on GitHub, is assisted by our editorial robot Whedon, and is designed to improve the quality of the software being submitted. The JOSS review process is an extension of the practices developed by the rOpenSci project.
The primary goal of JOSS is to provide a mechanism for receiving career credit as an author of open source research software through citations to JOSS papers. A secondary (but very important) motivation is to improve the quality of open source research software available.
JOSS publishes articles about research software. This definition includes software that: solves complex modeling problems in a scientific context (physics, mathematics, biology, medicine, social science, neuroscience, engineering); supports the functioning of research instruments or the execution of research experiments; extracts knowledge from large data sets; offers a mathematical library, or similar.
In addition, we have the following criteria for 'in-scope' submissions:
In the past three years we have published close to 750 papers.
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