Writing a JOSS paper

I’ve decided to write and submit a JOSS paper for exoplanet since the AAS Journals paper that I had been preparing was really taking too long. I’m hoping to write that up some day, but for now I think it’s worth having a JOSS paper as a reference in the meantime. I’ve put together a first rough draft of the manuscript and I think that everything else is pretty much ready to go. So I’d like to open the floor for comments and co-authorship.

I’d like to invite everyone who has contributed code so far to exoplanet or any of the related projects (@arjunsavel, @rodluger, @iancze, @ericagol, @adrn, @christinahedges, @emilygilbert, @lgbouma, @mrtommyb, @t-brandt, @bmorris3, @barentsen, @jacksonloper, @dylex) to be a co-author (no contribution is too small!). Similarly, if you’re seeing this through some other channel, I’d be happy to include anyone else who has made substantive contributions in other ways. Exactly how we’ll select the order is TBD (suggestions welcome!) and no pressure if you’d rather not be a co-author.

If you would like to be a co-author, please do the following steps before May 5, 2021 or let me know if you need more time:

1. Take a look at the current draft (I will continue to make edits to it, but this will stay up to date): https://github.com/exoplanet-dev/exoplanet/blob/gh-pages/paper.pdf
2. Send comments (if you have any) via pull request to the joss branch, or as comments here
3. Add a comment in this thread saying that you would like to be a co-author with the following format:

   - name: Daniel Foreman-Mackey
     orcid: 0000-0002-9328-5652
     affiliation:
       - Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY
       - Other affiliations...
   

If I don’t hear from you by May 5, I will follow up with you offline to make sure that you got this message, but please feel free to do this before then 😄 and let me know if you have any other comments or questions.

[dfm]

Hey team - thanks all for the comments, suggestions, and positive responses. Please feel free to send comments (up until next week: May 5) or add yourself as an author if you haven’t already!

Re author order, in absence of a better method, I propose that we do: me, @rodluger, and then alphabetical after that. Please let me know (here or offline) if you you have concerns about that proposal or if you have a better idea. I’d be happy to adjust as necessary.

If you have already been included as an author, please check the current version of the manuscript to make sure that I got your name and affiliation right. I tried to be careful, but I normalized and rearranged the affiliations a little so I could well have messed it up. If I don’t hear from you, I’ll expect that you’re happy with it.

[adrn]

JOSS paper looks great to me! Thanks for the invitation

- name: Adrian M. Price-Whelan
  orcid: 0000-0003-0872-7098
  affiliation:
    - Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY 10010, USA