Invitation to Co-author the JOSS Paper

[Axect]

Hello everyone! 👋

I am currently in the process of submitting Peroxide to the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). JOSS is a developer-friendly, open-access journal for research software packages.

During the review process, the JOSS editor and reviewer kindly suggested that I reach out to all contributors. I deeply appreciate the time and effort each of you has put into this project over the years, whether through adding new features, fixing bugs, or improving the codebase.

Because your contributions have been valuable to Peroxide, I would like to formally invite you to be listed as a co-author on the JOSS paper.

Since JOSS is designed to recognize software contributions, your previous commits to this repository already qualify you for co-authorship. You are welcome to review the current draft of the paper here if you'd like, but no additional writing is required on your part.

How to accept this invitation

If you would like to be included as a co-author, please reply to this issue by April 26, 2026 with the following details required by JOSS:

• Full Name
• Affiliation (University, Company, or "Independent Researcher")
• ORCID iD (If you don't have one, you can register at https://orcid.org)

If you decline or don't reply

If you prefer not to be a co-author, or if I don't hear back by April 26, 2026, that is completely fine. I will make sure to recognize your name in the Acknowledgements section of the paper.

For context, here is the JOSS review issue: openjournals/joss-reviews#10366

Thank you all again for your contributions to Peroxide!

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Tagging contributors for visibility:

@soumyasen1809 @russellb23 @JSorngard @schrieveslaach @GComitini @developing-human @bertini97 @mulimoen @samnaughtonb @adamnemecek @Hoff97 @relastle @jgrage @koute @tchamelot @era127 @tarolling @thettasch

(Nathan Eckert: if you see this, you are also invited. I was unable to find your GitHub account to tag you directly.)

[Axect]

Also tagging @gfaster, who contributed by opening issue #54. You are equally welcome to participate!

[schrieveslaach]

@Axect, thanks for reaching out. Sure, you can include me as author in the paper.

• Full Name: Marc Schreiber
• Affiliation: Independent Researcher (I think is appropriate in this case because work was done in my spare time)
• ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2564-6126

[JSorngard]

@Axect Thanks for the offer!

Full name: Johanna Sörngård
Affiliation: Independent Researcher (as I also did the work in my spare time)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8660-9989

[jgrage]

@Axect Thank you very much for the offer:

• Full Name: Jonas Grage
• Affiliation: Independent Researcher (Same reason as in the replies above)
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9279-7683

[tchamelot]

Hello, thank you for reaching out. My contribution does not deserve any acknowledgement, it was not related to the mathematical aspects.

Good luck with the submission process and thank you for your work on this library

[relastle]

Hello, thank you for the invitation. My contribution was minimal, so please feel free to leave me out. Best of luck with the JOSS submission!

[JSorngard]

Actually, my main contribution was in @Axect's puruspe. While peroxide re-exports that library I'm unsure if my contribution to peroxide proper warrants authorship. I would like to hear others thoughts on this.

[Axect]

Actually, my main contribution was in @Axect's puruspe. While peroxide re-exports that library I'm unsure if my contribution to peroxide proper warrants authorship. I would like to hear others thoughts on this.

Peroxide is an open-source project built through the accumulation of each and every contribution from its contributors. While contributions may vary in size, every single one is valuable.

Unlike traditional academic journals, JOSS is a journal dedicated to open-source software, so I believe the bar for authorship is quite different, and your contributions more than clear it. After all, all of you are already listed as Peroxide contributors for a reason. 😉 (This isn't an official JOSS stance, but to my knowledge they don't impose restrictive authorship criteria for contributors either.)

On a personal note, your consistent contributions have been a great help to Peroxide. As you mentioned, your main work has been on puruspe, but since puruspe serves as the backbone of Peroxide's special function module, your contributions have had a significant, both direct and indirect, impact on the project as a whole. Thank you again for your contributions! 👍

So in my view, your authorship is more than warranted. I'd be glad to have you on the paper. 😄

[JSorngard]

So in my view, your authorship is more than warranted. I'd be glad to have you on the paper. 😄

Then I'll be happy to be there!

[GComitini]

Hi @Axect, thanks for the invitation! Given what you wrote in this thread to me and others, I gladly accept to be co-author!

• Full Name: Giorgio Comitini
• Affiliation: Università degli Studi di Catania
• ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1758-7878

My contributions were made in my spare time, but the code itself was developed as part of scientific research for my university, so I think the affiliation should be that one.