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Editorial Opportunity at the Journal of Open Source Software

The Journal of Open Source Software – known to its friends as JOSS – is is a developer friendly, diamond open access journal for research software packages which has been running since 2016 and is enormously successful, publishing Open Source software across many fields of science. Its UR, joss.theoj.org, is a giveaway that it is a stablemate of astro.theoj.org, aka the Open Journal of Astrophysics.

The driving force behind JOSS, responsible for getting it off the ground at the very beginning, is Arfon Smith whom I’ve known since Nottingham days and it iis fair to say that without his considerable help, OJAp would never have started. Both journals started off as speculative ventures, and OJAp has taken a considerable time to establish itself, but JOSS took off very quickly indeed and has now published over 3,500 papers. There are numerous differences between the two journals but, like OJAp, all publications in JOSS are free to authors and readers.

Arfon has held the role of Editor-in-Chief at JOSS since 2016 but in a recent blog post he explains that he is stepping down from his role as Editor-in-Chief, although he will remain at JOSS. The call for a replacement is here. It’s an opportunity that will appeal to anyone interested in open-source research software and open-access publishing so if that’s you then please consider applying. It will be a substantial investment of time, probably about a day a week. I quote:

Candidates should have the capacity to commit the time this role requires. For those in institutional positions, we ask for a brief letter or statement from your employer or supervisor confirming support for this commitment. Independent researchers, consultants, or others without a traditional institutional affiliation should include a brief statement describing how they plan to allocate the time.

P.S. Today OJAp published its 100th paper of 2026 so far…

P.P.S. I’ll be stepping down as Editor-in-Chief at OJAp in a couple of years, when I retire, and we’ll be doing a similar search nearer the date.

Do you enjoy contributing to #FOSS / #OpenSource and #academia? You could sign up to be a reviewer for the Journal of Open Source Software.

:cyberheart_purple:

You might also help me personally :)

For any #Dart heads out there, my library is in the @joss review process. We need some more reviewers, and in general there are only a couple of Dart reviewers registered for the journal.

My submission: https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/9352

More information about JOSS reviews: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reviewer_guidelines.html

Volunteer to become a reviewer: https://reviewers.joss.theoj.org/join

#softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #journal #academicjournals #JOSS #lsl #liblsl #research #researchsoftware #networking #lowlatency

People Are Trying to Uncancel Joss Whedon. Why?

A viral new article argues that the fallout against Whedon is

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/gb9yv

#joss-whedon #movies-&-tv
https://www.themarysue.com/joss-whedon-allegations-buffy-cancelled-controversy/

About to do my first review for #JOSS 🎉
https://joss.theoj.org/

Very excited to see how it compares in practice to paper reviews and artifact evaluations from “classical” computer science venues !

I just did my first review for #JOSS
https://joss.theoj.org/

Extremely positive experience (summarized in Mastodon https://mstdn.science/@ChristosArgyrop/115879839460272337).

If you are developing research open source software, strongly consider submitting to JOSS!

I just did my first review for #JOSS joss.theoj.org Extremely positive experience (summarized in Mastodon mstdn.science/@ChristosArg...). If you are developing research open source software, strongly consider submitting to JOSS!

Journal of Open Source Softwar...

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@joss/115865186929885755

A fun submission for my first #JOSS review! 🎉
Great journal with awesome review and publishing process! More journals should adopt such progressive practices.

Happy to announce that our #JOSS paper on #MotilA is now published 😊

MotilA is an #OpenSource #Python pipeline for quantifying microglial fine-process motility in 3D/4D in vivo multiphoton #imaging data. It is specifically designed for reproducible, batch-scale analysis.

The paper describes the methodology, implementation, and scope of the software:

📄 https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.09267
💻 https://github.com/FabrizioMusacchio/MotilA
📘 https://motila.readthedocs.io/

#Neuroscience #Microglia #OpenScience #FOSS

🎉 I’m proud to share that our paper has been accepted in the Journal of Open Source Software!
Big thanks to everyone who contributed and supported this work 🙌

Original JOSS post: https://fosstodon.org/@joss/115333704000509742

#JOSS #OpenSource #Research #PhD #OpenScience #Python #computationalmechanics #scientificcomputing #PyOpenSci #FEA #FElupe

🎉 I’m proud to share that our paper has been accepted in the Journal of Open Source Software!
Big thanks to everyone who contributed and supported this work 🙌

Original JOSS post: https://fosstodon.org/@joss/115333704000509742

#JOSS #OpenSource #Research #PhD #OpenScience #Python #computationalmechanics #scientificcomputing #PyOpenSci #FEA #FElupe

🎉 I’m proud to share that our paper has been accepted in the Journal of Open Source Software!
Big thanks to everyone who contributed and supported this work 🙌

Original JOSS post: https://fosstodon.org/@joss/115333704000509742

#JOSS #OpenSource #Research #PhD #OpenScience #Python #computationalmechanics #scientificcomputing #PyOpenSci #FEA #FElupe

🎉 I’m proud to share that our paper has been accepted in the Journal of Open Source Software!
Big thanks to everyone who contributed and supported this work 🙌

Original JOSS post: https://fosstodon.org/@joss/115333704000509742

#JOSS #OpenSource #Research #PhD #OpenScience #Python #computationalmechanics #scientificcomputing #PyOpenSci #FEA #FElupe

🎉 I’m proud to share that our paper has been accepted in the Journal of Open Source Software!
Big thanks to everyone who contributed and supported this work 🙌

Original JOSS post: https://fosstodon.org/@joss/115333704000509742

#JOSS #OpenSource #Research #PhD #OpenScience #Python #computationalmechanics #scientificcomputing #PyOpenSci #FEA #FElupe

😱 Hold on... what?!

One of our PyCon AU speakers from last year just had their conference talk turned into a published journal paper! 🎉📄💚

Check it out 👉
Paper: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.07725
Talk: https://2024.pycon.org.au/program/HMWPGH

#PyConAU #Python #OpenSource #JOSS

Deep in the hurt of #Texas … https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2025/06/q-toon-texas-senate-bill-12.html
#lgbtq #editorialcartoon #schools #education plus #hatecrime #Joss

JOSS has now published more than 3,000 articles, and I've personally edited 60 of them (still editing +5). Being a part of JOSS has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life.

#JOSS #JOSS_TheOJ @joss

I have been approached by an editor of #JOSS (https://fediscience.org/@joss@fosstodon.org) who told me about #JOSE (https://jose.theoj.org/ - for which I could not find a Mastodon handle).

The idea is to provide a low-hurdle academic reward for open access educational material -- with a particular computational emphasis.

Thing is, that you hardly get an academic “paper” if you develop teaching material. So, this might be appealing for some folk here. 😉

#Teaching #AcademicCareer #AcademiCChatter #OpenScience

PyForestScan - A Python Library For Calculating Forest Structural Metrics From LiDAR Point Cloud Data
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https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07314 <-- shared paper
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https://github.com/iosefa/PyForestScan <-- GitHub repository
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[disclaimer: I have not tried this library]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #JOSS #remotesensing #LiDAR #pointcloud #forest #structural #metrics #spatialanalysis #geostatistics #ecology #ecological #FHD #PAD #PyForestScan #model #modeling #opensource #Python #library #density #canopyheight #areaindex #DTM #output #PDAL #forest #forestry #monitoring #carbonaccounting

The _Journal of Open Source Software_ (#JOSS, @joss) "is a fully diamond #OpenAccess journal with a cost of around US$5 per paper for the 401 papers published in 2023."

See how this works.
https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/18285/

#DiamondOA #OpenSource

New paper about the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS).

The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): Bringing Open-Source Software Practices to the Scholarly Publishing Community for Authors, Reviewers, Editors, and Publishers

https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/18285/

#openscience #opensource #journal #JOSS #openaccess

@mlarrieu @psm_os

I see the relevance.

However, I would like to hop in and link #JOSS here, which has an average cost of ~$2.71/paper.

https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2019/06/cost-models-for-running-an-online-open-journal

It is a different approach both worth to be copied IMHO.

https://joss.theoj.org/about

Some time ago, we published our #biopixR package in #JOSS

https://social.anoxinon.de/@RoedigerRG/113340746869808933

Now Tim @devTLB and I are working on our review as promised here.

https://social.anoxinon.de/@RoedigerRG/112773962698337008

The good news is, we have done most of the work on it. Now we are just polishing the paper.

We will likely share a link to a preprint server. Let's see how things evolve.

#rstats #bioinformatics #BioImage

@brembs @koen_hufkens Are venues like #JOSS, #Zotero and #OpenAlex part of the solution?

For the next few months, Dr. Andrej-Nikolai Spiess (https://openalex.org/works?page=1&filter=authorships.author.id%3Aa5027948408&sort=publication_year%3Adesc) will be a guest in my working group.

We are working on a paper where we show that 29 % of papers in top journals like Science, Nature & PNAS were skewed by a single influential data point! Time to rethink our reliance on p-values and explore alternative measures like #dfstat. #reproducibilitycrisis #linearregression #rstats

Moreover, we will work on #qPCR related software like PCRedux (https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.04407)

#JOSS

It is a pleasure to present @joss at the @us_rse conference 2024 in Albuquerque this evening. Please come to the poster session and learn more about JOSS.

https://zenodo.org/records/13942443

#JOSS #usrse #usrse24

@furqanshah @mariuszklimczak @mbpaz

Count me in. An OA journal is possible to operate at an advanced level. Let me name the Journal of Open Source Software #JOSS @joss here. They have an appealing Cost and Sustainability Model:

https://joss.theoj.org/about#costs

I wonder if such a journal would be possible with #codeberg @Codeberg too?

https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing.html

currently tinkering with getting @ResearchOrgs annotations into @joss papers.

Minus the need for some style tweaks, it seems to be working!

Here's the PR with these changes: https://github.com/openjournals/inara/pull/72

#TeXLaTeX #joss #openscience #openpublishing #futureofpublishing #openmetadata #bibliometrics

Last December, the #rstats package #bcp was archived. 🙄
https://cran.r-project.org/package=bcp
As my package 📁 #PCRedux 🧬 depends on it, it had a similar fate (like some others). I vainly hoped that its maintainer would bring it back to #CRAN :rstats:. My plan is in the coming months to incorporate relevant code from bpc into my package or remove the dependent function within my package. Since it is published at #JOSS [1], this is important for me.
Let's see when this works out 🤞

[1] https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.04407

@MarinManuel #JOSS https://joss.theoj.org/ is a very nice journal and appears to publish papers which are about hardware as well (probably you wrote some firmware or client software too?).

Otherwise #DOAJ has some suggestions https://doaj.org/search/journals?ref=homepage-box&source=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22term%22%3A%7B%22index.has_seal.exact%22%3A%22Yes%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22terms%22%3A%7B%22index.license.exact%22%3A%5B%22CC%20BY%22%5D%7D%7D%2C%7B%22query_string%22%3A%7B%22query%22%3A%22hardware%22%2C%22default_operator%22%3A%22AND%22%2C%22default_field%22%3A%22bibjson.title%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%2C%22track_total_hits%22%3Atrue%7D (only one really: https://openhardware.metajnl.com/ ).

Call for @joss reviewers:

EdgeVPN.io
repo: https://github.com/EdgeVPNio/evio
pre-review: https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/6355
language: Python

Description:

EdgeVPN.io is an evolution of the IP-over-P2P (IPOP) project. IPOP started as an IP-based peer-to-peer overlay targeting personal devices, and over time the architecture evolved to adopt various standards, support centralized user/group management, and incorporate software-defined networking, culminating in the current architecture, tailored for research and development in nascent edge computing applications.
...
EdgeVPNio is a research project to build networking for the fog, spanning the network continuum from the cloud to its edge. It builds networking cyber-infrastructure which supports emerging IoT era applications.

Looks like this one might be a bit of fun for #p2p people, or i suppose #DistributedSystems people generally. No prior experience reviewing for JOSS is required, experience with Python is required, and some experience with the topic area is preferred. Don't be shy! If you've never done open review before, JOSS is a great place to start. It's a really good way to learn by teaching (or learn by reading!) in a collaborative context. You can reply here or on the pre-review issue to volunteer :)

edit: would love to have some infosec people on this one! even and especially if you are not in academia :)

#OpenReview #PeerReview #SoftwareReview #CodeReview #JOSS