Welcome to the pyOpenSci Software Peer Review Guidebook!

pyOpenSci is a diverse community that supports the open Python tools that drive open science.

Learn About Software Peer Review ✏️

Get a basic overview of our open peer review process for Python scientific open source software.

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Package Scope (What We Review)

Learn about the scope of the packages that we review.

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Maintainers Guide

Are you a package author / maintainer? ✨

Learn how to submit a package for peer review with pyOpenSci.

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Editors Guide

✨ Our editor guide will walk you through the editorial process. ✨

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For Reviewers

Are you a reviewer? ✨

Click here to read our reviewer guide which will walk you through the review process step-by-step.

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Our Partners

Scientific Community Partnerships ✨

We partner with other scientific communities. Learn about our partnerships with JOSS and Pangeo.

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Why pyOpenSci?

pyOpenSci promotes open and reproducible research through peer-review of scientific Python packages. We also build technical capacity by providing a curated repository of high-quality packages and enabling scientists to write and share their own software. We hope to foster a greater sense of community among scientific Python users so that we can help each other become better programmers and researchers.

pyOpenSci Peer Review Badge will appear on the README.md file of packages that have been reviewed and vetted by us.

This Guide

This guidebook contains information for pyOpenSci package authors, reviewers, and editors. It is organized into three sections:

1. About Peer Review

This section provides a broad overview of our peer review process.

2. Our Partners

This section discusses our partnerships with other scientific and open source communities including Pangeo and JOSS.

3. How To Guides

This section provides specific guides for each role in our peer review process.