JOSS and ROR

[danielskatz]

If JOSS asked authors to use RORs to indicate their affiliations, we could pass them to Crossref and be a better member of the community, and it would also be easier for us to understand our authors.

We could also use RORs for editors and reviewers.

[cthoyt]

See https://github.com/openjournals/inara/issues/71 and https://github.com/openjournals/inara/pull/72. I was also thinking about this

[danielskatz]

Thanks very much @cthoyt for your good and complete work!

[danielskatz]

@cthoyt & @xuanxu - We're now having problems accepting papers - see https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/6917#issuecomment-2331099794 for example. Is this problem tied to the ROR-related change?

[cthoyt]

looking at it now. will give an update in 20-30 minutes

[cthoyt]

See https://github.com/openjournals/inara/pull/77, I think I've got a solution

[danielskatz]

👋 @xuanxu & @arfon - Can either of you check this and then potential merge it if that seems appropriate?

[arfon]

@cthoyt @tarleb – looks like we have a paper using RORs (yay!), but the paper formatting looks pretty janky (see the spacing between affiliations text): https://github.com/openjournals/joss-papers/blob/joss.07377/joss.07377/10.21105.joss.07377.pdf

Any thoughts on how this could be potentially improved?

[cthoyt]

yay! and, oh no!

I think this is an artifact of how I turned the ROR SVG into the latex commands. This was a bit of oversight on my part not trying with a more involved author list, but unfortunately when I was making changes to Inara, the diffs were very big and unruly, and I tried to minimize the document changes. I will take a second pass at this, and see if the bounding boxes in the latex commands can be adjusted :)

[cthoyt]

hi @arfon, thanks for being patient. I hope I wasn't holding up the daily JOSS grind. I've got a fix in https://github.com/openjournals/inara/pull/90 :)

[cthoyt]

hi @arfon, we've merged the fix and made a new 1.1.2 release of Inara that includes it

[tarleb]

JOSS should make use of the new version once this PR is merged: https://github.com/xuanxu/publishing-artifacts-action/pull/1

[xuanxu]

Merged!

[xuanxu]

PDF regenerated

Before:

After:

[cthoyt]

Maybe there's still room for improvement on the vertical positioning and left padding, but this is looking much better already!

[arfon]

Maybe there's still room for improvement on the vertical positioning and left padding, but this is looking much better already!

😻