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.
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If an author of research software is interested in writing a paper describing their work then there are a number of journals such as Journal of Open Research Software and SoftwareX dedicated to reviewing such papers. In addition, professional societies such as the American Astronomical Society have explicitly stated that software papers are welcome in their journals. In most cases though, submissions to these journals are full-length papers that conflate two things: 1) A description of the software and 2) Some novel research results generated using the software.
> Also, a paper is inherently different from a piece of open source software - a paper is set to present facts about something observed in nature; software on the other hand is used to accomplish something.
Curious how you think that this journal won't do this. I'm curious what you think of the Journal of Mathematical Logic!
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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.
and from the original post:
If an author of research software is interested in writing a paper describing their work then there are a number of journals such as Journal of Open Research Software and SoftwareX dedicated to reviewing such papers. In addition, professional societies such as the American Astronomical Society have explicitly stated that software papers are welcome in their journals. In most cases though, submissions to these journals are full-length papers that conflate two things: 1) A description of the software and 2) Some novel research results generated using the software.
> Also, a paper is inherently different from a piece of open source software - a paper is set to present facts about something observed in nature; software on the other hand is used to accomplish something.
Curious how you think that this journal won't do this. I'm curious what you think of the Journal of Mathematical Logic!