[PRE REVIEW]: lavaangui: A Graphical User Interface for lavaan With a Diagrammer

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Submitting author: @karchjd (Julian D. Karch)
Repository: https://github.com/karchjd/lavaangui
Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): joospaper
Version: v0.2.4
Editor: Pending
Reviewers: Pending
Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   589	Julian Karch
    55	j.d.karch@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
     6	karchjd
     1	Andreas Brandmaier

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

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- 10.1007/s11336-014-9435-8 is OK
- 10.18637/jss.v048.i02 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.10475661 is OK
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0197238 is OK

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 469

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

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👋 @karchjd - I am going to run this through review with our larger editorial board to ensure that it meets our substantial scholarly effort requirements. The reason being that that implements an R shiny app over an existing scientific contribution (lavaan). Also, I want to ensure your publication lavaangui: A Web-Based Graphical Interface for Specifying Lavaan Models by Drawing Path Diagrams is not too close to our software paper in JOSS. I did see where you stated that the code was not reviewed.

I'll get back to you on this ASAP.

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