[PRE REVIEW]: ParaMonte: A high-performance serial/parallel Monte Carlo simulation library for C, C++, Fortran

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Submitting author: @shahmoradi (Amir Shahmoradi) Repository: https://github.com/cdslaborg/paramonte Version: v1.2.0 Editor: @VivianePons Reviewers: @milancurcic, @williamfgc Managing EiC: Kevin M. Moerman

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- None

MISSING DOIs

- 10.1088/0004-637x/766/2/111 may be a valid DOI for title: A Multivariate Fit Luminosity Function and World Model for Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
- 10.1093/mnras/stv714 may be a valid DOI for title: Short versus long gamma-ray bursts: a comprehensive study of energetics and prompt gamma-ray correlations
- 10.1007/s11222-006-9438-0 may be a valid DOI for title: DRAM: efficient adaptive MCMC
- 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp162 may be a valid DOI for title: GNU MCSim: Bayesian statistical inference for SBML-coded systems biology models
- 10.18637/jss.v035.i04 may be a valid DOI for title: PyMC: Bayesian stochastic modelling in Python

INVALID DOIs

- None

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@shahmoradi I think our system cannot see your paper (which appears to be at https://github.com/cdslaborg/paramonte/tree/master/pubs/ParaMonte/kernel/JOSS2020), can you move the files to your main folder or put them in a paper folder?

@openjournals/dev can you confirm this is the issue here? Thanks

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@whedon check repository

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Software report (experimental):

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.84  T=1.19 s (370.9 files/s, 122918.1 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language                     files          blank        comment           code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fortran 90                     129           9675          16520          36343
MATLAB                         199           4322          16842          18907
Python                          41           3789           6733           6479
DOS Batch                       15            685            245           3464
Fortran 77                       1            117           6772           3226
Bourne Shell                    10            564            799           2902
CMake                           20            552           1747           2535
Markdown                        14            620              0           1664
HTML                             1             20             90            231
TeX                              1             17              0            186
C                                4             54            158            173
C/C++ Header                     5             21            151             62
C++                              2             19             36             53
Java                             1              8              7             23
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SUM:                           443          20463          50100          76248
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Statistical information for the repository '2710' was gathered on 2020/10/01.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
Amir Shahmoradi                142         29997          18077           70.62
Joshua Osborne                   2            57             13            0.10
fagheri                          5         12868           7066           29.28

Below are the number of rows from each author that have survived and are still
intact in the current revision:

Author                     Rows      Stability          Age       % in comments
Amir Shahmoradi            5593           18.6          1.8               36.96
fagheri                   12173           94.6          0.8               12.77

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@drvinceknight @diehlpk @melissawm @VivianePons @meg-simula @mjsottile could one of you handle this submission? Thanks!

[xuanxu]

I think our system cannot see your paper (which appears to be at https://github.com/cdslaborg/paramonte/tree/master/pubs/ParaMonte/kernel/JOSS2020), can you move the files to your main folder or put them in a paper folder?

That should not be a problem, whedon can find the paper in any subfolder

[xuanxu]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

:point_right::page_facing_up: Download article proof :page_facing_up: View article proof on GitHub :page_facing_up: :point_left:

[VivianePons]

I can take it

[VivianePons]

@whedon assign @VivianePons as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @VivianePons

[shahmoradi]

I apologize for arriving late at this issue. The suggestion of @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman as the editor was accidental, though I believe @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman is more than qualified to edit this submission.

@Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman I believe the problem about the paper view is now resolved by whedon.

As for potential reviewers, I suggest the following:

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milancurcic : Research Scientist at the University of Florida, knowledgable on the topic and the languages used in the software. hpparvi krystophny fhorrobin scivision davidbeckingsale williamfgc anowacki DougBurke vwmaus Teuben mturiansky rchg CFGrote eschnett

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@VivianePons If there is anything else that I may have missed, please let me know.

Thank you, Best regards

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@shahmoradi thanks for your comments. Fortunately @VivianePons has volunteered to edit this submission and she will be much better suited than I am to edit this submission. You can address any further questions/communication for the review of this work to her.

[VivianePons]

@whedon add @milancurcic as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @milancurcic is now a reviewer

[VivianePons]

@whedon add @williamfgc as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @williamfgc is now a reviewer

[VivianePons]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/2741.