[PRE REVIEW]: Fast-ER: GPU-Accelerated Record Linkage and Deduplication in Python

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@jacobmorrier<!--end-author-handle-- (Jacob Morrier) Repository: https://github.com/jacobmorrier/fast-er Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): Version: v0.1.1 Editor: Pending Reviewers: Pending Managing EiC: Samuel Forbes

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   391  Jacob Morrier
    67  jacobmorrier
    17  sukishore12
     3  Sulekha Kishore

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1067

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

✅ OK DOIs

- 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1794 is OK
- 10.1017/S0003055418000783 is OK
- 10.1111/joes.12395 is OK
- 10.1146/annurev-soc-073117-041447 is OK
- 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031210-100700 is OK
- 10.1017/S0003055420000556 is OK
- 10.1177/1532673X19870512 is OK

🟡 SKIP DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: CuPy: A NumPy-Compatible Library for NVIDIA GPU Ca...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Arrow Columnar Format
- No DOI given, and none found for title: String Comparator Metrics and Enhanced Decision Ru...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: RAPIDS: Libraries for End to End GPU Data Science
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands...

❌ MISSING DOIs

- 10.32614/cran.package.fastlink may be a valid DOI for title: fastLink: Fast Probabilistic Record Linkage with M...

❌ INVALID DOIs

- None

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Hi @jacobmorrier thanks for submitting to JOSS. Given the relatively small size of the package in terms of python code, this will be discussed for scope by our editors.

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