The ''Journal of Open Source Software'' is a
peer-reviewed
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open-access
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scientific journal
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Content
Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such ...
covering
open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Ope ...
from any research discipline.
The journal was founded in 2016 by editors Arfon Smith, Kyle Niemeyer, Dan Katz, Kevin Moerman, and
Karthik Ram.
The
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is Arfon Smith (
Space Telescope Science Institute
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), science operations and mission operations center for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and science operations center for the ...
), and associate editors-in-chief are Dan Katz, Kevin Moerman, Kyle Niemeyer, and Krysten Thyng. The journal is a sponsored project of
NumFOCUS and an affiliate of the
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the steward of the Open Source Definition, the set of rules that define open source software. It is a California public-benefit nonprofit corporation, with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.
The organization w ...
. The journal uses
GitHub
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as publishing platform.
The journal was established in May 2016 and in its first year published 111 articles, with more than 40 additional articles under review.
They reported approximately 1200 published articles in March 2021.
The journal has been discussed in several peer-reviewed papers which describe its publishing model and its effectiveness.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the
Astrophysics Data System
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and in the
DBLP
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computer science
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bibliography online database.
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