Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review
Arfon M Smith, Kyle E Niemeyer, Daniel S Katz, Lorena A Barba, George, Githinji, Melissa Gymrek, Kathryn D Huff, Christopher R Madan, Abigail, Cabunoc Mayes, Kevin M Moerman, Pjotr Prins, Karthik Ram, Ariel Rokem, Tracy, K Teal, Roman Valls Guimera, Jacob T Vanderplas

TL;DR
The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access platform that publishes research software articles, aiming to improve software quality and provide academic credit for software contributions.
Contribution
This paper introduces JOSS's design, review process, and first-year achievements, highlighting its open, collaborative review system and focus on software as scholarly output.
Findings
Published 111 articles in first year
Open review process on GitHub
Articles receive DOIs and are citable
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…
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TopicsOpen Source Software Innovations · Open Education and E-Learning · Wikis in Education and Collaboration
