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Daniel Katz is the Chief Scientist at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Research Associate Professor in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the School of Information Sciences, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is working to make research software more sustainable by encouraging scholarly incentives and academic career paths for those who work on it, policy changes for its recognition and support, and best practices to make it easier to develop and maintain. He is an Associate-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Open Source Software, leads the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group’s journals task force, and is the Steering Committee Chair for the Research Software Alliance (ReSA).

Articles by Daniel S. Katz

Guest Post — The Evolving Role of Scientific Editing

In a collaborative open peer review process, the editor’s role changes as much as the reviewer’s role. Editors share some insights about how this works at JOSS.

Guest Post – Starting a Novel Software Journal within the Existing Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem: Technical and Social Lessons

The Journal of Open Source Software was designed from scratch using the principles of open source and software design practices. This has both advantages and disadvantages, particularly with respect to elements of the traditional scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Guest Post — Citing Software in Scholarly Publishing to Improve Reproducibility, Reuse, and Credit

Daniel Katz and Hollydawn Murray present the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group’s guidelines for citing the software used in research publications.