[PRE REVIEW]: MQT Core: The Backbone of the Munich Quantum Toolkit (MQT)

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@burgholzer<!--end-author-handle-- (Lukas Burgholzer) Repository: https://github.com/cda-tum/mqt-core Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): joss-paper Version: v2.7.0 Editor: !--editor-->@danielskatz<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: @1ucian0, @edyounis, @josh146 Managing EiC: Daniel S. Katz

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

✅ OK DOIs

- 10.1109/TCAD.2020.3032630 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-030-79837-6_14 is OK
- 10.23919/DATE54114.2022.9774631 is OK
- 10.1109/QCE52317.2021.00037 is OK
- 10.1109/ASP-DAC47756.2020.9045153 is OK
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- 10.1109/DAC18072.2020.9218563 is OK
- 10.1145/3394885.3431590 is OK
- 10.1109/TCAD.2022.3197969 is OK
- 10.1109/QCE49297.2020.00051 is OK
- 10.1145/3505636 is OK
- 10.22331/q-2020-06-04-279 is OK
- 10.1109/VLSID57277.2023.00068 is OK
- 10.1145/3400302.3415622 is OK
- 10.1109/TCAD.2022.3182628 is OK
- 10.23919/DATE51398.2021.9474135 is OK
- 10.23919/DATE51398.2021.9474034 is OK
- 10.1145/3530776 is OK
- 10.1109/ASP-DAC47756.2020.9045711 is OK
- 10.1145/3394885.3431604 is OK
- 10.1109/DAC18072.2020.9218555 is OK
- 10.1109/QCE57702.2023.00095 is OK
- 10.1145/3489517.3530480 is OK
- 10.1145/3566097.3567932 is OK
- 10.1109/JETCAS.2022.3202204 is OK
- 10.1145/3593594 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2405.08810 is OK
- 10.1109/QCE57702.2023.00039 is OK
- 10.1088/2058-9565/ad33ac is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2311.14164 is OK
- 10.1145/3566097.3567929 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2012.13966 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-031-15699-1_1 is OK
- 10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180791 is OK
- 10.1109/QSW62656.2024.00013 is OK
- 10.1145/3491246 is OK
- 10.1007/978-981-15-6401-7_43-1 is OK
- 10.23919/DATE51398.2021.9474236 is OK

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Commit count by author:

   951  Lukas Burgholzer
   403  burgholzer
   329  dependabot[bot]
   121  Tom Peham
   116  pre-commit-ci[bot]
    76  Yannick Stade
    55  Stefan Hillmich
    34  renovate[bot]
    14  Thomas Grurl
    14  pehamTom
     7  Aaron Sander
     6  Martin Fink
     4  HartwigB
     4  github-actions
     4  lsschmid
     3  Berti Florea
     2  33Gjl1Xe
     2  Katrin
     2  Parham Rahimi
     2  Rebecca Ghidini
     2  TeWas
     2  Tianyi Wang
     1  Christoph Pichler
     1  Damian Rovara
     1  Elias Leon Foramitti
     1  Hartwig
     1  JoachimMarin
     1  Roope Salmi
     1  Sarah
     1  Thomas
     1  TobiasPrie
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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 623

✅ 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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👋 @burgholzer - thanks for your submission.

I'll be the editor.

Please suggest ~5 potential reviewers. You can search the list of people that have already agreed to review and may be suitable for this submission. Or people who aren't in the JOSS system would also be ok. If you know their GitHub usernames, then please mention them here in this thread (without tagging them with an @).

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@editorialbot assign me as editor

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Assigned! @danielskatz is now the editor

[burgholzer]

👋 @burgholzer - thanks for your submission.

I'll be the editor.

Hey 👋🏼

Thanks for acting as the editor for this submission!

Please suggest ~5 potential reviewers. You can search the list of people that have already agreed to review and may be suitable for this submission. Or people who aren't in the JOSS system would also be ok. If you know their GitHub usernames, then please mention them here in this thread (without tagging them with an @).

I searched through that list, but I didn't find too many suitable people on that list. hanrui-wang would work.

Outside of that list, potential reviewers include:

• Josh Izaac (josh146)
• Erick Ochoa (erick-xanadu)
• Luciano Bello (1ucian0)
• Ed Younis (edyounis)

Hope that works. Let me know if you need further suggestions.

[danielskatz]

👋 @hanrui-wang & @josh146 & @erick-xanadu & @1ucian0 & @edyounis, would a few of you be willing to review this submission for JOSS? We carry out our checklist-driven reviews here in GitHub issues and follow these guidelines: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/review_criteria.html

[1ucian0]

Yeap. I'm good with that next week. I'm a first-timer, let me know the timeframe if that does not fit.

[edyounis]

Yeah, I am happy to, but I am also a first-timer. Would I post a review as a response to the issue here?

[josh146]

Hi @danielskatz, happy to as well on my end, but let me know if we have reached saturation on the reviewer side!

[danielskatz]

Thanks all - I'm happy to have all three of you. I will add you and start the review. Re the questions above, the review is checklist driven, so your main activity is to check items off your list (when I start the review, you will see how to do that). And the timeframe is more or less 2-4 weeks, but the process is iterative, like open source software, with issues and PRs when needed that the author responds.

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@editorialbot add @1ucian0 as reviewer

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@editorialbot add @edyounis as reviewer

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@edyounis added to the reviewers list!

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@editorialbot add @josh146 as reviewer

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@josh146 added to the reviewers list!

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@editorialbot start review

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OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/7478.