Plasmapy: Journal publications on plasmaPy
This project is quite wide in scope with many modules that have and will involve a lot of work. Are there any plans for publishing this stuff? To me, it would be cool if there was an over-arching plasmapy article and then separate articles describing the functionality of some of the more complex modules.
One place to consider publishing is the Journal of Open Research Software which takes metapapers on reusable codes used in research with the expectation that they are documented, archived, and open source.
Has this question been addressed elsewhere? This might be a good way to attract attention to plasmapy in the future and to reward significant contributions with highly citable papers.
lemmatum
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I completely agree! I have personally been wondering if version 0.2 would be a good time to publish an article that describes the overall project. I heard a lot about the Journal of Open Source Software at SciPy 2017, which is another possibility. Physics of Plasmas also allows open access publications for a higher publication fee, which might be worth it since it would reach many more plasma physicists. We can also look for inspiration from Astropy's v0.2 paper and SunPy's v0.5 paper too. Thank you for bringing this up!
namurphy
on 1 Nov 2017
Are there any particular physics milestones for v0.2 which you would want to include in a plasmapy paper? (both milestones which currently exist and ones you can think of which would look good in a publication)
Those are all great links! I shall look to them for inspiration for my own projects as well! 馃槂
lemmatum
on 2 Nov 2017
Zenodo may be another platform for publishing code/article.
lemmatum
on 14 Dec 2017
If we get financial assistance from GSOC, they should be mentioned in the acknowledgements.
lemmatum
on 3 Apr 2018
As per our video conference on 2018-05-08, we want to publish in Physics of Plasmas for v0.2. The paper will be in LaTeX/REVTex.
We should start planning PlasmaPy features which can be translated into figures for the paper which convey a "wow factor".
lemmatum
on 8 May 2018
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I completely agree! I have personally been wondering if version 0.2 would be a good time to publish an article that describes the overall project. I heard a lot about the Journal of Open Source Software at SciPy 2017, which is another possibility. Physics of Plasmas also allows open access publications for a higher publication fee, which might be worth it since it would reach many more plasma physicists. We can also look for inspiration from Astropy's v0.2 paper and SunPy's v0.5 paper too. Thank you for bringing this up!