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Paper describing design and first-year of JOSS
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Closed kyleniemeyer closed 6 years ago

kyleniemeyer commented 6 years ago

Another concern is about novelty of JOSS, literature review of related efforts, and understanding how JOSS works fit into the broader infrastructure. See for example below about Calgo. Further, how does it fit into the world of education (are submissions uses by teachers or students) or software engineering?

kyleniemeyer commented 6 years ago

Note about Calgo:

Regarding the note “Calgo”, please see http://calgo.acm.org/ and http://toms.acm.org/algorithms-policy.cfm. Some discussion of this long-running algorithm venue seems necessary.

kyleniemeyer commented 6 years ago

Other journals mentioned in #10 and #17

kyleniemeyer commented 6 years ago

Calgo is interesting—it does review algorithms/software, with a focus on

This software is refereed for originality, accuracy, robustness, completeness, portability, and lasting value

It does seem limited to software associated with papers published in Transactions on Mathematical Software, so this connection to a paper (along with the domain-specific nature) are some differences from JOSS. It is also fairly small, with only 986 published entries from 1960-today.

kyleniemeyer commented 6 years ago

Geoscientific Model Development (GMD, https://www.geoscientific-model-development.net/) is also worth mentioning. While the "model description papers" do focus on software, this seems more analogous to JORS since these are full-length papers. They also consider papers describing methods for assessing models, and papers for describing model experiments and evaluations.

One other similarity with GMD is that papers are first available in a discussion forum, where anyone can add comments alongside those from reviewers.

kyleniemeyer commented 6 years ago

We could also discuss some instrumentation journals (mentioned in #10), like Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (https://www.geoscientific-instrumentation-methods-and-data-systems.net/index.html), or Elsevier's new Hardware X. I do see these as somewhat similar in spirit to JOSS etc. in publishing non-article scholarly products.

danielskatz commented 6 years ago

If we didn't, we should add a link to Neil's https://www.software.ac.uk/which-journals-should-i-publish-my-software and explain where we fit. If there are journals we've found that aren't in that list, we should suggest that Neil add them.