Publishing venues between package documentation and a full article

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Hi, the R community has the R Journal https://journal.r-project.org/ which is a nice open source journal to publish articles about R including packages, applications, etc, of medium length.

I am wondering if anyone knows of similar journals which would be appropriate for Julia applications. I’ve seen the Journal of Open Source Software (https://joss.theoj.org/) and published there before and I don’t think it is suitable for what I’m looking for, because the paper is more just used to index a software product, rather than being an interesting artifact in its own right. Likewise for its sister journal JOSE (https://jose.theoj.org/). On the other end, while some official and semi-official blogs can fulfill this role, being able to point to published citations is helpful for people’s careers, so I’m looking for more journal type venues. Would appreciate any leads from people, thanks!

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Some related journals, more demanding than JOSS:

  • Machine Learning Open Source Software
  • SIAM journals
  • Mathematical Programming Computation
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SIAM journals are not open access and I doubt that Math Prog is either. The good news in both cases is that you’ll get thorough reviewing and careful copy editing.

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Hmnm, somehow I forgot about JSS Journal of Statistical Software, which is close to what I’m thinking of but as the title states for statistical applications. SIAM is indeed not open access and MPC is Springer owned, but Journal of Machine Learning Research looks like an interesting suggestion, thanks. Are there any JSS level journals for operations research related fields? (I’m vaguely defining this as including simulation, optimization, process modeling, etc).