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.^[1][2][3] The journal was founded in 2016 by editors Arfon Smith, Kyle Niemeyer, Dan Katz, Kevin Moerman, and Karthik Ram.^[1][4] The editor-in-chief is Arfon Smith (Space Telescope Science Institute).^[5] The journal is a sponsored project of NumFOCUS and an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative.^[6] The journal uses GitHub as publishing platform.^[7][8]

Journal of Open Source Software

Discipline	Software engineering
Language	English
Edited by	Arfon Smith
Publication details
History	2016–present
Frequency	Continuous, upon acceptance
Open access	Yes
License	CC-BY 4.0
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Open Source Softw.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	2475-9066
OCLC no.	971252162
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

The journal was established in May 2016 and in its first year published 111 articles^[9]. It has been discussed by its editors in several peer-reviewed papers which describe its publishing model and its effectiveness.^[1][10]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Astrophysics Data System and in the DBLP computer science bibliography online database^[11].