Abstract
A recent editorial, “Giving Software its Due,”1
described challenges related to the development of research software and
highlighted, in particular, the challenge of software publication and
citation. Here, we call attention to a system that we have developed
enabling community-driven software review, publication, and
citation. The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is an open-source
project and an open-access journal providing a lightweight
publishing process for research software. Focused on and based in open
platforms and on a community of contributors, JOSS satisfies a
pressing need, evident in having already published more than 500 articles in
approximately three years of existence.