Announcing The Journal of Open Source Software
The Journal of Open Source Software
(JOSS) has been announced.
JOSS is an open source, developer-friendly journal for research software
packages. "As academics, it's important for us to be able to measure
the impact of our work, but available tools & metrics are woefully
lacking when it comes to tracking research output that doesn't look like a
paper. A 2009 survey of more than 2000 researchers found that > 90% of
them consider software important or very important to their work — but even
if you've followed this GitHub guide for archiving a GitHub repository with
Zenodo (and acquired a DOI in the process), citations to your work probably
aren't being counted by the people that matter." (Thanks to Paul Wise)