# openjournals/joss

The Journal of Open Source Software

Repository: https://github.com/openjournals/joss
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/joss
Homepage: https://joss.theoj.org
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: journal, open-access, scientific-journals, scientific-software, publishing, academia, academic
Last push: 2026-08-26T16:43:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3874, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1910, forks 214 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:53.080065+00:00)

## What it is
The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a developer-friendly, open-access academic journal for research software packages with a formal peer review process. This repository contains the Rails application powering the submission tool and website at joss.theoj.org, which mints Crossref DOIs for accepted papers.

## Use cases
- submit a research software paper for peer review
- publish software with a citable DOI
- run an open-access journal for research software
- manage editorial peer review workflow for software papers
- browse recently published research software papers
- volunteer as a reviewer for software papers

## When to choose
- you are a researcher wanting a citable publication for well-documented research software
- you want to read or cite peer-reviewed research software papers
- you want to study or contribute to the platform running an open-access software journal

## When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose journal management system like OJS for non-software journals
- your software is not research software in a scientific or academic context
- you want a self-hosted review tool unrelated to academic publishing

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, search-engine, documentation, workflow-automation
- domain: education, documentation, developer-tools, apis
- platform: ruby, self-hosted
- tags: academic-journal, open-access, peer-review, publishing, research-software, doi, crossref, rails, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- openjournals/joss (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.080065+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:11:04.558576+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/openjournals/joss (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.080065+00:00, sha 97726cb6d43f)
  - homepage: https://joss.theoj.org (fetched 2026-08-29T10:50:02.724776+00:00, sha 7a1bddc59fd8)
  - site_page: https://joss.theoj.org/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:50:02.727785+00:00, sha 8ea610312543)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.