Journals to publish plug-ins ?

[Adrian Daerr-2]

Dear ImageJ community,

What journals will publish, or in what journals would you expect,
articles on an ImageJ plug-in (Description of the algorithm, validation
measurements), or more generally a bit of open-source scientific software ?

Specifically I wrote a plug-in for surface tension measurement (through
the pendant drop method), which I validated with a few liquids of known
interfacial energy, and was wondering whether there are peer-reviewed
journals for this kind of thing. As you'd expect the data fitting
algorithm itself has nothing particularly revolutionary about it, so
machine vision journals are way off.

Targetting the "life scientists and chemists" there is of course Nature
Methods, where articles on ImageJ (Schneider, Rasband, Eliceiri 2012)
and Fiji (Schindelin et al.) have been published, and a couple of other
journals (Bioinformatics, Biotechnology J, PLoS One, Biophotonics Int.),
as I can see on
http://fiji.sc/Publications

While chemists might occasionaly be interested in surface tensions, and
very rarely the life scientists, there are maybe similar journals for
physicists, material scientists, or the general scientific public, that
would better suit a plug-in for interfacial energy measurement ?

thanks in advance for any input,
Adrian

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[Michael Doube-4]

Hi Adrian,

See this list:
http://www.software.ac.uk/resources/guides/which-journals-should-i-publish-my-software

In particular the new Journal of Open Research Software if you just need to document your code and get a DOI
http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/

Michael

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Subject: Journals to publish plug-ins ?

Dear ImageJ community,

What journals will publish, or in what journals would you expect,
articles on an ImageJ plug-in (Description of the algorithm, validation
measurements), or more generally a bit of open-source scientific software ?

Specifically I wrote a plug-in for surface tension measurement (through
the pendant drop method), which I validated with a few liquids of known
interfacial energy, and was wondering whether there are peer-reviewed
journals for this kind of thing. As you'd expect the data fitting
algorithm itself has nothing particularly revolutionary about it, so
machine vision journals are way off.

Targetting the "life scientists and chemists" there is of course Nature
Methods, where articles on ImageJ (Schneider, Rasband, Eliceiri 2012)
and Fiji (Schindelin et al.) have been published, and a couple of other
journals (Bioinformatics, Biotechnology J, PLoS One, Biophotonics Int.),
as I can see on
http://fiji.sc/Publications

While chemists might occasionaly be interested in surface tensions, and
very rarely the life scientists, there are maybe similar journals for
physicists, material scientists, or the general scientific public, that
would better suit a plug-in for interfacial energy measurement ?

thanks in advance for any input,
Adrian

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