Five years ago, we introduced a second criterion, “substantial scholarly effort” , to ensure that we publish meaningful contributions to research software. Our benchmark at the time – at least roughly three months of developer time – offered a practical, human-centered proxy for effort. For that era, it served us well. Today, the landscape is fundamentally different.

We’re once more looking to grow our editorial team at JOSS! Since our launch in May 2016, our existing editorial team has handled over 5000 submissions (over 3000 published at the time of writing, almost 500 under review) and the demand from the community continues to be strong. JOSS now consistently publishes 40-45 papers per month, and this is gradually increasing.

Once again, we’re looking to grow our editorial team at JOSS! Since our launch in May 2016, our existing editorial team has handled nearly 4100 submissions (~2700 published at the time of writing, 340 under review) and the demand from the community continues to be strong. JOSS now consistently publishes 40-45 papers per month, and this is gradually increasing.

Subscribe Now: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, RSS Irea Mosquera-Lois and Seán Kavanagh join Arfon and Abby to discuss releasing software based on important research observations, earning a PhD, and building ShakeNBreak, a defect structure searching method that better identifies low-energy structures. Irea is a PhD Student at Imperial College London. Seán is an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University.

Subscribe Now: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, RSS Mats van Es joins Arfon and Abby to discuss reproducible science and the functionality he added to FieldTrip, a MATLAB software toolbox for analyzing brain imaging data. Mats is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford. You can follow Mats on Twitter/X @mats_van_es.

Subscribe Now: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, RSS Giulia Crocioni joins Arfon and Abby to discuss DeepRank2, a deep learning framework for 3D protein structure predictions. Giulia is a Research Software Engineer at the Netherlands eScience Center where she uses different machine learning techniques to develop and contribute to methodologies and applications to answer life sciences research questions.

Subscribe Now: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, RSS Jimmy Shen sat down with Arfon and Abby to discuss the role of defect analysis in semiconductor research, the Materials Project, and the development of pymatgen-analysis-defects. Jimmy is a postdoc at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he tries his best to automate himself away. You can follow Jimmy on GitHub @jmmshn, Linkedin, or on Google Scholar.

Subscribe Now: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, RSS Marjan Albooyeh and Chris Jones chat with Arfon and Abby about their experience building FlowerMD, an open-source library of recipes for molecular dynamics workflows. Marjan and Chris are both grad students in Dr. Jankowski’s lab at Boise State University where they use molecular dynamics to study materials for aerospace applications and organic solar cells.

Subscribe Now: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, RSS Gui Castelão and Luiz Irber join Arfon and Abby to discuss their work implementing the Gibbs Sea Water Oceanographic Toolbox of TEOS-10 in Rust, and the role of instrument builders in science. Gui is an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, previously part of the Instrument Developing Group. Luiz is a Computer Science PhD at UC Davis and an avid Rustacean.

Subscribe Now: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, RSS Nicolas Renaud joins Arfon and Abby to discuss QMCTorch, a PyTorch implementation of real-space Quantum Monte-Carlo simulations of molecular systems, and work to promote research software as a research output. Nico is the head of the Natural Sciences and Engineering section of the Netherlands eScience Center and Senior Researcher at the Quantum Application Lab.

Subscribe Now: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, RSS Juliette Hayer joins Arfon and Abby to discuss Baargin, an open source tool she created to analyze bacterial genomes, especially those resistant to antibiotics.