ArticlePeerJ preprints2018
Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review.
Article in PeerJ preprints, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Common-sense approaches to sharing tabular data alongside publication.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Review
- The role of metadata in reproducible computational research.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Review
- Transforming the study of organisms: Phenomic data models and knowledge bases.PLoS computational biology · 2020Review
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- Open collaborative writing with Manubot.PLoS computational biology · 2019Article
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- Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review.PeerJ preprints · 2018Article
- The case for openness in engineering research.F1000Research · 2018Article
- Verifiability in computer-aided research: the role of digital scientific notations at the human-computer interface.PeerJ. Computer science · 2018Article
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- Re-run, Repeat, Reproduce, Reuse, Replicate: Transforming Code into Scientific Contributions.Frontiers in neuroinformatics · 2017Article
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Authors and funding
16 authors.
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Abstract
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 digital object identifier (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 under review. JOSS is a sponsored project of the nonprofit organization NumFOCUS and is an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
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