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| Discipline | Software engineering |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Arfon Smith |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2016–present |
| Frequency | Continuous, upon acceptance |
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| License | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | J. Open Source Softw. |
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| ISSN | 2475-9066 |
| OCLC no. | 971252162 |
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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]
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]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Astrophysics Data System and in the DBLP computer science bibliography online database [11] .