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Arfon M. Smith

Once again, we’re looking to grow our editorial team at JOSS! Since our launch in May 2016, our existing editorial team has handled nearly 4100 submissions (~2700 published at the time of writing, 340 under review) and the demand from the community continues to be strong. JOSS now consistently publishes 40-45 papers per month, and this is gradually increasing.

Call for editors

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Reproducibility in Neuroscience – Mats van Es on FieldTrip reproducescript JOSSCast: Open Source for ResearchersBy The Journal of Open Source SoftwareMay 02, 2024 Share 00:00 26:23 ::::::::::::::::::

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JOSSCast #9: Reproducibility in Neuroscience – Mats van Es on FieldTrip reproducescript

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Applying ML to Quantum Monte Carlo simulations – Nicolas Renaud on QMCTorch JOSSCast: Open Source for ResearchersBy The Journal of Open Source SoftwareFeb 22, 2024 Share 00:00 22:20 :::

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JOSSCast #4: Applying ML to Quantum Monte Carlo simulations – Nicolas Renaud on QMCTorch

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Eva Maxfield Brown on Speakerbox – Open Source Speaker Identification for Political Science JOSSCast: Open Source for ResearchersBy The Journal of Open Source SoftwareJan 25, 2024 Share 00:00 21:43 :::

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JOSSCast #1: Eva Maxfield Brown on Speakerbox – Open Source Speaker Identification for Political Science

Lorena A. Barba

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Daniel S. Katz

Kevin M. Moerman

Kyle Niemeyer

Kristen Thyng

Once again we’re looking to grow our editorial team at JOSS. We’re especially interested in recruiting editors with expertise in bioinformatics, material science, physics, R/statistics, and the social sciences. Since our launch in May 2016, our existing editorial team has handled over 800 submissions (830 published at the time of writing, 119 under review) and the demand from the community continues to grow.

The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a free, open-access online journal, with no article processing charge (APC). We are committed to operating as a free service to our community, and we do so thanks to the volunteer labor of editors and reviewers, and by taking advantage of existing infrastructure.

Cost models for running an online open journal

JOSS is expanding its editorial board and we’re opening this opportunity to the open source research software community at large. If you think you might be interested, take a look at our editorial guide which describes the editorial workflow at JOSS and also some of the reviews for recently accepted papers. Between these two, you should be able to get a good overview of what editing for JOSS looks like.

Today we’re starting something new at JOSS: we’re collaborating with American Astronomical Society (AAS) Journals to offer software reviews for some of the papers submitted to their journals. As part of this process, AAS Publishing will make a small contribution to our parent organization NumFOCUS to support the running costs of JOSS.

A new collaboration with AAS publishing

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Studying Superbugs – Juliette Hayer on Baargin JOSSCast: Open Source for ResearchersBy The Journal of Open Source SoftwareFeb 08, 2024 Share 00:00 30:18 :::

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JOSSCast #3: Studying Superbugs – Juliette Hayer on Baargin

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Deep Learning for 3D Protein Structure Predictions – Giulia Crocioni on DeepRank2 JOSSCast: Open Source for ResearchersBy The Journal of Open Source SoftwareApr 18, 2024 Share 00:00 28:54 ::::::::::::::::::

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JOSSCast #8: Deep Learning for 3D Protein Structure Predictions – Giulia Crocioni on DeepRank2

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Rewrite in Rust – Gui Castelão and Luiz Irber on Gibbs SeaWater Oceanographic Toolbox in Rust JOSSCast: Open Source for ResearchersBy The Journal of Open Source SoftwareMar 07, 2024 Share 00:00 36:54 :::

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JOSSCast #5: Rewrite in Rust – Gui Castelão and Luiz Irber on Gibbs SeaWater Oceanographic Toolbox in Rust

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Astronomy in the Open – Dr. Taylor James Bell on Eureka!

JOSSCast #2: Astronomy in the Open – Dr. Taylor James Bell on Eureka!

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JOSSCast #10: Defect Structure Searching – Irea Mosquera-Lois and Seán Kavanagh on ShakeNBreak

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Adding defect analysis to the Materials Project – Jimmy Shen on pymatgen-analysis-defects JOSSCast: Open Source for ResearchersBy The Journal of Open Source SoftwareApr 04, 2024 Share 00:00 22:11 ::::::::::::::::::

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JOSSCast #7: Adding defect analysis to the Materials Project – Jimmy Shen on pymatgen-analysis-defects

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Streamlining Molecular Dynamics – Marjan Albooyeh and Chris Jones on FlowerMD JOSSCast: Open Source for ResearchersBy The Journal of Open Source SoftwareMar 21, 2024 Share 00:00 26:19 ::::::::::::::::::

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JOSSCast #6: Streamlining Molecular Dynamics – Marjan Albooyeh and Chris Jones on FlowerMD

Once again, we’re looking to grow our editorial team at JOSS! Since our launch in May 2016, our existing editorial team has handled nearly 3000 submissions (2182 published at the time of writing, 265 under review) and the demand from the community continues to be strong. JOSS now consistently publishes a little over one paper per day, and we see no sign of this demand dropping.

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On March 12th of this year, we suspended new submissions to JOSS in order to reduce the load on our volunteer team of editors and reviewers. We revisited this suspension in early April and decided to continue the pause on new submissions for at least another month. Over the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing our current status and discussing what it might look like to reopen JOSS.

Reopening JOSS

Following our call for editors late last year, once again we’re looking to grow our editorial team.  Over the past ~40 months, our existing editorial team has handled close to 800 submissions (665 accepted at the time of writing, 101 under review) and the demand from the community continues to grow. The last three months have been our busiest yet, with JOSS publishing a little over one paper every day, and we see no sign of this demand dropping.

This week JOSS reached a big milestone – publishing our 2000th paper! It also happens to be our 7th birthday, and we thought we’d take this opportunity to review our submission stats from the last few years, discuss some of the changes to JOSS we’ve made of late, and reflect on some of the challenges we have faced as a journal.

JOSS publishes 2000th paper

Dan Foreman-Mackey

Olivia Guest

George K. Thiruvathukal

Once again, we’re looking to grow our editorial team at JOSS! Since our launch in May 2016, our existing editorial team has handled over 2000 submissions (1838 published at the time of writing, 215 under review) and the demand from the community continues to be strong. JOSS now consistently publishes a little over one paper per day, and we see no sign of this demand dropping.

JOSS is continuing to grow, and we are looking to add more editors with expertise in the area of astronomy &amp; astrophysics. Since our launch in May 2016, our existing editorial team has handled nearly 1900 submissions (1684 published at the time of writing, 205 under review) and the demand from the community continues to grow. In particular, we have seen an increase in the number of astronomy &amp;

Call for editors: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics

JOSS is continuing to grow, and we are looking to add more editors again. We’re especially interested in recruiting editors with expertise in bioinformatics, neuroinformatics/neuroimaging, material science, ecology, machine learning &amp; data science, and the social sciences.

Sometime in 2020, JOSS will publish its 1000

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paper – an incredible achievement by a volunteer team of editors and reviewers. Since its inception a little over four years ago, the primary goal of JOSS has always been to provide credit for authors of research software.

Minimum publishable unit

Today we reached a huge milestone at JOSS – we published our 1000

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paper! JOSS is a developer friendly, free-to-publish, open-access journal for research software packages. Publishing 1000 papers (and reviewing the corresponding 1000 software packages) over the past ~4 years has been no small feat.

1000 papers published in JOSS

The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) started with one editor-in-chief (EiC) and 10 topic editors, and in our first year, we published about 100 papers. Three years later, the rate of publication has increased to 300 papers per year. How did we scale up to this point, and how can we continue scaling the journal? Scaling to-date   Today, we have one editor-in-chief (EiC), three associate editors-in-chief (AEiCs), and 23 topic editors.

Scaling the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)

JOSS is an adventure in next generation publishing, made possible by the volunteer work of many people. Our editors, of course, guide the style and the content of the journal. And our reviewers make a uniquely valuable contribution, both to the software they’ve reviewed and to the broader community of open-source research software. Some reviewers have been extra generous in contributing.

A special thanks to our most dedicated reviewers

Kathryn Huff

The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is committed to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure, and here we summarize our status in doing so, followed by a more detailed discussion of how we do so, as well as explaining some when we do not, and some work in progress.

JOSS’s Commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

2019 has been a big year for JOSS: This year, we’ve already published 300 papers and are on target to reach ~360 papers by the end of the calendar year. We’ve substantially improved our website and made a number of important changes to our editorial team to help us scale further.

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