Journal of Open Source Software
The Journal of Open Source Software is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering open-source software from any research discipline. The editor-in-chief is Arfon Smith who launched the journal in May 2016. The journal is a sponsored project of NumFOCUS and an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative. The journal uses GitHub 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.
The journal has been discussed in several peer-reviewed papers which describe its publishing model and its effectiveness.The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Astrophysics Data System.
