JOSS and national journal lists

[danielskatz]

Partly related to JOSS & Web of Science, this is information gathered by @rossmounce while part of a group preparing a paper about JOSS:

Having noted that the Norwegian journal evaluation system officially approves of JOSS, I thought I’d take a look at JOSS’s reputational standing with other national-level journal evaluation systems…
The Finnish have a listing portal called JUFO
The entry for JOSS is here: https://jfp.csc.fi/en/#!PublicationInformationView/id/84408
Unfortunately the Finns at JUFO have given JOSS a 0 every year since 2017.
The level categories of the JUFO classification are:
3 = top
2 = leading
1 = basic
0 = Publication channels that do not meet the level 1 criteria.

JOSS appears not to be listed in the Indian UGC-approved list either, a copy of which is here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371618232_List_of_UGC_Approved_Journal_List_2023

JOSS is also not in the 2024 Polish Journal Ranking tables, which are available to download from here:
https://www.gov.pl/web/nauka/komunikat-ministra-nauki-z-dnia-05-stycznia-2024-r-w-sprawie-wykazu-czasopism-naukowych-i-recenzowanych-materialow-z-konferencji-miedzynarodowych

And here's a useful overview of national-level journal lists:
National-Lists-of-Scholarly-Publication-Channels-An-Overview-and-Recommendations-for-Their-Construction-and-Maintenance.pdf

I think we can also infer (from absence) that ANVUR – the Italian research evaluation body, also ignores / does not rate JOSS.
Here’s the list of accepted journals for ‘Area 13’ (Economics and Statistics): https://www.anvur.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Area13_scientifiche_14032024.pdf
Included in this list is rather similar journals like The R Journal and International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes
But absent are both JOSS and(!) SoftwareX .
Any Italian economist is therefore a little disincentivized from choosing JOSS ☹️
The situation is a little complicated in Italy as they only use approved journal lists in “non bibliometric” disciplines. https://www.anvur.it/en/activities/rating-of-scientific-journals/
For e.g. biology, medicine, chemistry instead they use citation analysis leveraging Web of Science and/or Scopus where of course JOSS is also left out because of non-indexing by Web of Science & Scopus 🙃