In the interest of reducing load on reviewers and editors as we manage the COVID-19 crisis, rOpenSci is temporarily pausing new submissions for software peer review for 30 days (and possibly longer). Please check back here again after 17 April for updates.
In this period new submissions will not be handled, nor new reviewers assigned. Reviews and responses to reviews will be handled on a ‘best effort’ basis, but no follow-up reminders will be sent.
Other rOpenSci community activities continue. We express our continued great appreciation for the work of our authors and reviewers. Stay healthy and take care of one other.
The rOpenSci Editorial Board
Thank you for considering submitting your package to the rOpenSci suite. All the packages contributed by community members go through a process of open peer review to ensure a consistent level of quality for our users. This process also allows us to ensure that your package meets our guidelines and provides opportunity for discussion where exceptions are requested.
This README is a short intro to Software Peer Review for you as a potential author or reviewer. For more information, consult our gitbook “rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review”.
Our code of conduct is mandatory for everyone involved in our review process.
- Why and how submit your package to rOpenSci?
- Why and how review for rOpenSci?
- Further resources
- Editors and reviewers
- First, and foremost, we hope you submit your package for review because you value the feedback. We aim to provide useful feedback to package authors and for our review process to be open, non-adversarial, and focused on improving software quality.
- Once aboard, your package will continue to receive support from rOpenSci members. You’ll retain ownership and control of your package, but we can help with ongoing maintenance issues such as those associated with updates to R and dependencies and CRAN policies.
- rOpenSci will promote your package through our webpage, blog, and social media. Packages in our suite also get a documentation website that is automatically built and deployed after each push.
- rOpenSci packages can be cross-listed with other repositories such as CRAN and BioConductor.
- rOpenSci packages that contain a short accompanying paper can, after review, be automatically submitted to the Journal of Open-Source Software for fast-tracked publication.
If you want to submit a package, read our guide for authors before opening a submission issue in this repository.
- As in any peer-review process, we hope you choose to review to give back to the rOpenSci and scientific communities. Our mission to expand access to scientific data and promote a culture of reproducible research is only possible through the volunteer efforts of community members like you.
- Review is a two-way conversation. By reviewing packages, you’ll have the chance to continue to learn development practices from authors and other reviewers.
- The open nature of our review process allows you to network and meet colleagues and collaborators through the review process. Our community is friendly and filled with supportive members expert in R development and many other areas of science and scientific computing.
To volunteer to be one of our reviewers, just click here to fill out a short form providing your contact information and areas or expertise. We are always looking for more reviewers with both general package-writing experience and domain expertise in the fields packages are used for.
Please also read our guide for reviewers.
Our gitbook “rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review” also includes:
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chapters dedicating to good practice for package maintenance
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different templates: review template, editor’s template, review request template.
Our review process is always in development, and we encourage feedback and discussion on how to improve the process on our forum and in the ropensci/software-review-meta issue tracker.
rOpenSci’s Software Peer Review process is run by:
- Noam Ross, EcoHealth Alliance
- Scott Chamberlain, rOpenSci
- Karthik Ram, rOpenSci
- Maëlle Salmon, rOpenSci
- Lincoln Mullen, George Mason University
- Anna Krystalli, University of Sheffield RSE
- Melina Vidoni, INGAR CONICET-UTN
- Brooke Anderson, Colorado State University
We are grateful to the following individuals who have offered up their time and expertise to review packages submitted to rOpenSci.
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We are also grateful to the following individuals who have served as guest editors.