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 ### 🤔 Why ChemInformant?
 
-> ChemInformant's core mission is to serve as a high-performance data backbone for the Python cheminformatics ecosystem. By delivering clean, validated, and analysis-ready Pandas DataFrames, it enables researchers to effortlessly pipe PubChem data into powerful toolkits like RDKit, Scikit-learn, or custom machine learning models, transforming multi-step data acquisition and wrangling tasks into single, elegant lines of code.
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-A detailed comparison with other existing tools is provided in our [JOSS paper](https://github.com/HzaCode/ChemInformant/blob/main/paper/paper.md).
+> ChemInformant's core mission is to serve as a high-performance data backbone for the Python cheminformatics ecosystem. As a software package that has undergone rigorous peer review by both the [Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08341) and [pyOpenSci](https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-submission/issues/254), it delivers clean, validated, and analysis-ready Pandas DataFrames. This enables researchers to effortlessly pipe PubChem data into powerful toolkits like RDKit, Scikit-learn, or custom machine learning models, transforming multi-step data acquisition and wrangling tasks into single, elegant lines of code.
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+> A detailed comparison with other existing tools is provided in our [JOSS paper](https://github.com/HzaCode/ChemInformant/blob/main/paper/paper.md).
 
 ### 🤝 Contributing