On Monday, November 18, 2013 3:59:22 AM UTC-5, Stefan van der Walt wrote:

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If we are going to worry about JIF, PLOS ONE has 3.7, and does accept

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Juan Nunez-Iglesias <jni....@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: papers

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from all disciplines. (You will also find a Scholarly Kitchen post about how a JIF of 3.7 is a sign that PLOS and open access are doomed.)

Thanks, I won't take Scholarly Kitchen too seriously then. I know that impact factors are a lousy way (by itself) to determine where to publish, but that's a whole other kettle of fish.

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Currently my two top candidates then are JMLR MLOSS and PLOS ONE. (The latter does charge $1300 US per article.)

Open access fees should not pose too much of a problem:

http://library.sun.ac.za/English/services/oa/Pages/su-oafund.aspx

Let's get started on some content!

I think we would do well to emphasize the following in the paper:

- Pythonic API - Building block for reproducible research, use in academic world (we need a list of publications of work that used skimage) - Educational aspects (skimage.novice) - Google Summer of Code contributions - Use in industry (do we have examples here?)

It may be non-disclosable, but I know that Enthought may have some industrial examples.

- ... other ideas?

Stéfan