The Journal of Open Source Software

Our screening does not flag The Journal of Open Source Software. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in DOAJ, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Per our venue index, The Journal of Open Source Software appears in: DOAJ, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

Papers in The Journal of Open Source Software are cited about 3.2 times each within two years of publication, with an h-index of 137. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

Free to publish — DOAJ lists no article processing charge (APC). So there is no fee for authors to publish in The Journal of Open Source Software. Fee policies change — confirm on the journal's own site before relying on it.

Submission to publication for The Journal of Open Source Software takes about ~12 wk — DOAJ self-reported. Treat it as indicative rather than a guarantee: editorial times vary by article type, reviewer availability and season, and a self-reported figure is the journal's own. We do not hold a peer-review acceptance rate for The Journal of Open Source Software.