Software Impacts is a multidisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal which publishes short, articles that describe software which addresses a research challenge. The journal describes the application of impactful and re-usable software and provides a scholarly reference. Publications in Software Impacts consist of two parts:

• A short descriptive paper of approximately three pages, including an Impact Overview statement and references to scholarly publications where the software has been used

• Open source software with support material