[PRE REVIEW]: Calzone: A Geant4 Python wrapper for the simulation of outdoor particle detectors

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Submitting author: @niess (Valentin Niess)
Repository: https://github.com/niess/calzone
Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): paper
Version: v1.1.1
Editor: Pending
Reviewers: Pending
Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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

✅ OK DOIs

- 10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01368-8 is OK
- 10.1109/TNS.2006.869826 is OK
- 10.1016/j.nima.2016.06.125 is OK
- 10.1016/j.nima.2013.09.036 is OK
- 10.1016/j.ejmp.2020.03.019 is OK
- 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2 is OK
- 10.1088/0031-9155/49/19/007 is OK
- 10.1016/j.cpc.2018.04.001 is OK
- 10.1016/j.cpc.2019.106952 is OK
- 10.1016/j.cpc.2022.108438 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2412.02414 is OK
- 10.1118/1.4758060 is OK
- 10.1007/s13246-012-0159-8 is OK
- 10.1088/1361-6560/ac8c83 is OK
- 10.1109/TNS.2005.860749 is OK
- 10.1029/2019JB019149 is OK

🟡 SKIP DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: PCG: A family of simple fast space-efficient stati...

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   184	Valentin Niess

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1725

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

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@niess - thanks for your submission to JOSS. We're currently managing a large backlog of submissions and the editor most appropriate for your area is already rather busy.

For now, we will need to waitlist this paper and process it as the queue reduces. Thanks for your patience!