[PRE REVIEW]: CitationNet: Visualizing scientific reference networks in 3D

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@maltevogl<!--end-author-handle-- (Malte Vogl) Repository: https://github.com/maltevogl/citationnet Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): Version: 2.1.0 Editor: Pending Reviewers: Pending Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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

✅ OK DOIs

- 10.5281/zenodo.7346907 is OK
- 10.1038/d41586-019-03305-w is OK
- 10.1515/9783111291383-012 is OK

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

    27  Malte Vogl
     9  mvogl

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 606

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: MIT License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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@maltevogl – thanks for your submission to JOSS. It looks like this codebase is comprised of both TypeScript and Python components – are you looking for both to be reviewed here?

Additionally, I'm going to start a scope review amongst the JOSS editors to decide if this submission is research software as defined by JOSS. This does not mean that it is not software that is useful in research, but just that JOSS might not consider it in scope for review as research software.

This process will likely take a week or so to complete.

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@editorialbot query scope

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Submission flagged for editorial review.

[maltevogl]

Hi @arfon, yes the codebase is both typescript (for the front end) and Python (back end). Both parts are closely integrated since the Python part generates the network data, that is then displayed by the Typescript part. The repository contains the code both for the pypi python package as well as the npm package. The tests are written for both parts independently.

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:wave: @maltevogl – After discussion by the editorial team, we've concluded that this submission is not in scope for JOSS, as it does not fit our definition of research software as defined by JOSS. This does not mean that it is not software that is useful in research, but just that JOSS might not consider it in scope for review here.

One possible alternative to JOSS is to follow GitHub's guide on how to create a permanent archive and DOI for your software. This DOI can then be used by others to cite your work.

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@editorialbot reject

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Paper rejected.

[maltevogl]

Dear @arfon, thanks for your feedback. Maybe I made the purpose not clear enough but the software is used to "extract[..] knowledge from large data sets" (as you state in your definition of research software) for the field of History of Science, since it build the citation and reference network for a single publication from the vast amount of publication data in OpenAlex. So I thought the software would perfectly fit your scope. I would appreciate a reconsideration with this in mind. Independent of that, I will publish the software on Zenodo.