A new software publication from the Thünen Institute of Forestry has been released in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS):
TI-FSM, Morland C, Schier F, Tandetzki J, Honkomp T (2025) TiMBA (Timber market Model for policy-Based Analysis). J Open Source Software 10(115):8034, DOI:10.21105/joss.08034
https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn070334.pdf
JOSS is one of the leading venues for peer-reviewed scientific software and ensures that research code undergoes the same rigorous evaluation as traditional scientific articles — including documentation quality, reproducibility, and functional soundness.
The publication marks the successful completion of a thorough peer-review process for TiMBA. This confirms the model’s technical quality and scientific relevance, while also enhancing transparency and reproducibility for future studies. With this, the TiMBA software is now officially reviewed by experts.
TiMBA is a partial equilibrium model that represents global timber flows across the entire value chain. It is continuously further-developed and is used, among other applications, to evaluate policy measures in the context of the bioeconomy, climate mitigation strategies, and resource use. Its flexible architecture allows for detailed assessments of supply, demand, and international market interactions.
The JOSS publication marks an important milestone: it increases TiMBA’s visibility within the scientific community, facilitates reuse, and supports open and reproducible research on global timber markets.
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