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]

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.
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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. It has been discussed by its editors in several peer-reviewed papers which describe its publishing model and its effectiveness.^[1][8]

Abstracting and indexing

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