Yesterday I was very pleased to have my paper, entitled “COINr: An R package for developing composite indicators”, published in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). You can find the paper in all its glory right here.
As has been said elsewhere, JOSS follows a really interesting open review and publication system via GitHub. I can safely say it has been the nicest publication experience I have had so far. And that’s not because it was accepted with no modifications. On the contrary, I had to expand the unit test coverage from about 25% up to 80% which took quite a lot of effort, and there were a number of other good issues raised by the reviewers. The reason I liked it is because it was fair and thorough but also quick and efficient. You can see the full review here.
So COINr now has a proper citation associated with it, which means that I and my co-authors can be credited for our work. It also has an all-important DOI.
At the moment, this is the last paper I am involved in. I have resolved not to get involved in other papers unless I return to an academic job. However, there may be some other interesting things on the horizon for COINr. There is some fairly serious talk of turning it into a Shiny app, which would be very interesting. I can’t reveal other details at the moment since nothing is totally confirmed but stay tuned!