@joss, the Journal of Open Source Software, is now in the fediverse. The journal is remarkable for multiple reasons, with one reason being that papers are authored in #Markdown and processed by #pandoc.
https://joss.theoj.org/
If only @joss was around while I was in grad school, I would have had way more papers! I'm so glad to see this trend in academia and the recognition that good software is worthy of publication.
@mattkram @joss one issue for the wider audience is that #JOSS is not included in all databases (e.g. #pubmed), thus it has less visibility. Moreover, it not indexed in #scopus or #WOS to get ''meaningful'' measures like the #impactfactor .
For those who need numbers:
#Exaly (https://exaly.com/journal/106890/journal-of-open-source-software) and #googlescholar cover it.
However, I see the merits of their approach and can tell that the review/publishing process is #SOTA.
@astrojuanlu @mattkram @joss It is a lot of work and time that is needed to get in the indexes.
Technically they could (see the referenced paper below).
They have a #DOI and #crossref, which seems to be sufficient.
Fun fact: They wrote in PeerJ about their first year (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32704456/), which is available via PubMed.