''SoftwareX'' is a biannual

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covering

scientific software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...

. It is published by

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, and its

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are Kate Keahey, Randall Sobie, and David Wallom. The journal has an official

GitHub GitHub, Inc. () is an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git. It provides the distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous ...

repository where the software/code of all publications are archived. Articles are licensed under the

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is

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in the following

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s: *

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* Inspec *

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References

External links

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