Journal of Open Source Software

The Journal of Open Source Software is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages.
We built this journal because we believe that after you've done the hard work of writing great software, it shouldn't take weeks and months to write a paper about your work.
JOSS publishes articles about research software. This definition includes software that: solves complex modeling problems in a scientific context (physics, mathematics, biology, medicine, social science, neuroscience, engineering); supports the functioning of research instruments or the execution of research experiments; extracts knowledge from large data sets; offers a mathematical library; or similar.
We have a simple submission workflow and extensive documentation to help you prepare your submission. If your software is already well documented then paper preparation should take no more than an hour.
JOSS submissions must:
Be open source (i.e., have an OSI-approved license).
Have an obvious research application.
Be feature-complete (no half-baked solutions) and be designed for maintainable extension (not one-off modifications).
Minor 'utility' packages, including 'thin' API clients, and single-function packages are not acceptable.
Authors wishing to make a pre-submission enquiry should open an issue on the JOSS repository.