Re:Announcing the Journal of Open Source Software
by bronxbomber92 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @06:44PM
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Since writing the paper is expected to take no more than an hour, given the software is already written, I wonder if they're worried about receiving a flood of submissions. Perhaps it's less of a problem since reviewing a paper should take much less time given their length?
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Re:Announcing the Journal of Open Source Software
by a_bonobo on Sunday May 08, 2016 @11:11PM
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I feel it may be a problem for them since it looks like they try to reproduce the program's setup/workflow, which is (in my experience) more than bioinformatics reviewers usually do:
>Authors are strongly encouraged to include an automated test suite covering the core functionality of their software.
> OK: Documented manual steps that can be followed to check the expected functionality of the software (e.g. a sample input file to assert behaviour)
You can see the checklist reviewers go through in any of the issues here:
Re:Announcing the Journal of Open Source Software
by tkt on Monday May 09, 2016 @03:00AM
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Yes, the paper won't take long to write if the software already meets the criteria in the Reviewer guidelines http://joss.theoj.org/about#reviewer_guidelines
Most scientific software probably doesn't already have all these components in place. It would be a great problem to have, to have a flood of submissions!