Owner

openjournals

4 indexed repositories · View on GitHub

joss
The Journal of Open Source Software

Ruby · 1918 stars
joss-papers
Accepted JOSS papers

HTML · 317 stars
buffy
Editorial bots generator

Ruby · 29 stars
gh-action-repo-checks
GitHub action to run checks on a repository and paper file submitted to Open Journals for review

Ruby · 1 star

Beginner friendly Everything

Open All

Branch status wrt main Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/buffy#134 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
JOSS app on Postgres 18 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

openjournals/joss#1573 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2026
list Amsterdam donation on about JOSS page Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

openjournals/joss#1561 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 10, 2026
How to add a "current affiliation" as a footnote, not as an official affiliation? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

openjournals/joss#1555 · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Instructions for podman Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

openjournals/joss#1552 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2026
Document sublicensing non-CC-BY materials in the paper, and licensing generally Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

openjournals/joss#1549 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Check for multiple papers and issue warning Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

openjournals/buffy#132 · Opened May 21, 2026
Validate reference titles against crossref metadata Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/buffy#130 · Opened May 21, 2026
"cleanup" command for removing bot-directed comments Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/buffy#129 · Opened May 7, 2026
Case sensitivity for adding and removing reviewers Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

openjournals/buffy#128 · 2 comments · Opened May 1, 2026
Code snippets after acceptance - leading zero in DOI breaks links Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

openjournals/joss#1525 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Show date of submission on dashboard Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1508 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 24, 2026
Allow Journal Editors to send a Review Confirmation Email to Reviewers Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/buffy#118 · Opened Dec 14, 2025
Feature request: add repository size statistics to "Software Report" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1479 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 8, 2025
Feature request - Log rejected/withdrawn papers in editor and reviewer stats Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1478 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Nov 6, 2025
Paper preprint license requirements Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 70/100

openjournals/joss#1474 · Opened Oct 25, 2025
Editorial bot cannot work across review and pre-review threads Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1469 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2025
Regarding my paper submission before i submit Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1468 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2025
Proposal: accept typst submission Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

openjournals/joss#1465 · 5 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 7, 2025
add information about repeat/related submissions Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

openjournals/joss#1452 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 5, 2025
Use tokei instead of cloc in editorialbot Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

openjournals/joss#1450 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2025
Remove newline from "title" of existing (all) records? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1449 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2025
Reviewers added in an ongoing review are "assigned" to the issue Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/buffy#111 · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Ampersand in titles not handled properly Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1443 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2025
Require citation data as part of a JOSS submission. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1418 · Opened Apr 4, 2025
Handling DOI prefix and suffixes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1417 · Opened Apr 2, 2025
check reuse compliant licenses as well, to omit having a second license file Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/gh-action-repo-checks#1 · Opened Jan 16, 2025
Add Fediverse Creator meta tag to JOSS Paper Page Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1399 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 25, 2024
Reviewer checklist vs. JOSS acceptance criteria | (When) Can reviewers recommend rejection? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

openjournals/joss#1395 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 17, 2024
Make `Reviewer` model? Open

enhancement:reviewer question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1388 · Opened Nov 1, 2024
add link to "reviewer profile" from joss profile page :) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

openjournals/joss#1387 · Opened Nov 1, 2024
Automated emails for reviewers at the end of a successful review Open

enhancement:reviewer

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1386 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 1, 2024
[proposal] embed raised issues/PRs in paper page Open

enhancement:editor enhancement:reader enhancement:reviewer

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1384 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2024
[proposal] add summary statement to reviewer checklist Open

enhancement:reader enhancement:reviewer

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1383 · 12 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2024
LaTeX in article titles isn't properly rendered on home page nor article page Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1382 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 29, 2024
Impossible to login in dev environment Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1374 · Opened Oct 11, 2024
[ui] Message to editors placeholder text is awfully long & gets cut off Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1373 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 11, 2024
Papers have multiple JATS files Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

openjournals/joss-papers#5719 · Opened Aug 3, 2024
Incorrect attachment names in JATS Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss-papers#5718 · Opened Aug 3, 2024
Incorrect DOIs in crossref.xml Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss-papers#5717 · Opened Aug 3, 2024
JOSS and national journal lists Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1352 · 3 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jul 31, 2024
discourage backquotes in titles Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1349 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 21, 2024
managing EiC on review issue Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

openjournals/joss#1348 · Opened Jun 21, 2024
Better handling of invalid/expired scope query links Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1347 · Opened Jun 19, 2024
issue about cross references Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

openjournals/joss#1340 · 1 comment · Opened May 21, 2024
Have reviews openly listed on Reviewer page Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

openjournals/joss#1337 · 2 reactions · Opened May 3, 2024
some papers are missing .html & .jats & .xml versions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

openjournals/joss-papers#5250 · Opened Apr 18, 2024
Contribution process for JOSS code and policies Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1335 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 17, 2024
More structured recommendations for review issues? Open

enhancement:author enhancement:reviewer question review

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1334 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 17, 2024
Archive DOI not validated Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/buffy#103 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 22, 2024

Showing the newest 100

This page lists what was indexed most recently. Advanced filter has the whole inventory, narrowed by language, difficulty and how long a task takes.

Open advanced filter

openjournals

Showing the newest 100

Get new issues in your inbox