On Dec 3, 2010, at 2:26 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
"Thomas S. Dye" <
tsd@tsdye.com> writes:
Hi Eric,
On Dec 2, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
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and each is nicely self-contained. I am a little surprised at the
choice of journal, mind you...
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Would you recommend publishing someplace else? We hoped list members
would have opinions on this and welcome comments and suggestions.
All the best,
Tom
This is a little outside my field, even though I'm a computer scientist.
I work at the interface between computing and industrial engineering...
Yes, this is what makes the choice difficult. Org-mode is tough to categorize. It cuts across field boundaries in sometimes amazing ways.
I was surprised at your choice simply because there appears to be
nothing relevant to statistics about what you have written. A more
broad computer science journal may make sense, such as "Programming and
Computer Software" from Springer or maybe the "IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering?" But I really don't know which are the best
journals for something like this.
Thanks for the helpful suggestions, which we'll follow up.
I think the idea of submitting to JSS came from the functional overlap with Sweave, which is widely used by the R community, and the ease with which compendia can be implemented in Org-mode. The compendium idea seems to have developed largely within the statistical computing community, with strong ties to R in particular. JSS is one place the R community congregates, so we thought the article would get some attention there.
Hopefully somebody else from the list will have a better idea!
As usual, you've provided good food for thought.