Submitting to JOSS? about pyzx HOT 3 CLOSED

I have read up a bit on JOSS. It seems it is meant more to replace the existence of dedicated software papers. But seeing as we already spent the effort in making such a paper, I don't see much value in also pursuing a JOSS paper.

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Aleks and I had in fact considered that option, but ended up sending our the paper you mentioned to the proceedings of QPL: http://eptcs.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/paper.cgi?QPL2019.14
Do you know whether the Journal of Open Source Software would look kindly on work that has already been accepted elsewhere?

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Yes dual submissions seem to be totally in the spirit of JOSS, they even strike partnerships to do that systematically: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2018/12/a-new-collaboration-with-aas-publishing
I expect QPL reviewers and JOSS reviewers to be looking for different things, so the reviewing process at JOSS would probably not be redundant.

That being said you already have a DOI via QPL, so perhaps you don't want to duplicate that…

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