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Academics in social sciences; what would you think about waiting more than 8 months after the acceptance of your manuscript in a well-known SSCI-indexed journal published by the Taylor & Francis Group? The answer from the journal addresses the reason due to "a large backlog of manuscripts" in the system. Then, why not consider publishing an announcement beforehand on the website about this issue? How can we talk about progress in science if we proceed at this pace?

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Looking to create an umbrella review protocol and eventual umbrella review for a project I am working on but I cannot seem to find reporting guidelines for same. I was hoping there was something like PRISMA but for umbrella reviews and umbrella review protocols?

Additionally, what journals accept umbrella review protocols that are not hidden behind a pay wall that is open access fees. My field of expertise is in the health/social science space.

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Who else get frequent emails from Social Sciences (SS) e-ІЅЅN:2326-988X to join them as Editorial member?

What are your experiences?

I need 2 international Authors who can review my article.

It is a social science article titled: "Bibliometric Analysis of Behavioural Strategy Research Mapping trends knowledge networks and emerging Paradigms in the pursuit of Competitive Advantage"

Kindly let me know

Dea research community.

I'm exploring the advantages and disadvantages of online, offline, and mixed data collection methods in humanities and social sciences. I'm interested in any insights or criteria for choosing the right method. Your expertise would be invaluable to me in addressing this topic on an academic platform.

Thanks

Suppose one has 40 or 50 survey questions for an exploratory analysis of a phenomenon, several of which are intended to be dependent variables, but most independent. A MLR is conducted with e.g. 15 IVs to explain the DV, and maybe half turn out to be significant. Now suppose an interesting IV warrants further investigation, and you think you have collected enough data to at least partially explain what makes this IV so important to the primary DV. Perhaps another, secondary model is in order... i.e. you'd like to turn a significant IV from the primary model into the DV in a new model.

Is there a name for this regression or model approach? It is not exactly nested, hierarchical, or multilevel (I think). The idea, again, is simply to explore what variables explain the presence of IV.a in Model 1, by building Model 2 with IV.a as the DV, and employing additional IVs that were not included in Model 1 to explain this new DV.

I am imagining this as a sort of post-hoc follow up to Model 1, which might sound silly, but this is an exploratory social science study, so some flexibility is warranted, imo.

My answer: we realize that humans are too complex to model and predict the behavior of, precisely. But the modeling of human behavior still should not be abandoned but realized as heuristic building. Maybe social sciences should be renamed Survival HEURISTIC design.

Interdisciplinary research involves collaboration between researchers from different fields to solve complex problems that cannot be tackled within the confines of a single discipline. It seeks to combine knowledge, methods, and tools from different fields to create new solutions that are not possible within one field alone.

Interdisciplinary research can involve natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, as well as other areas such as engineering, computer science, and economics.

When doing discourse research, I often feel that the findings based on discourse analysis is not as “important” as those in social science studies (for example, political science). In most cases, the findings are limited to the discourse pattens of the argument which was already common understanding in some social science disciplines. So what can we do to make a difference?

What are the emerging research areas and trends within the fields of agricultural extension and agricultural social sciences?

I am interested to understand the most recent advancements in research, innovative methodologies, and pressing challenges that researchers are currently exploring in this fields. Your insights will greatly contribute to my understanding of the evolving landscape of agricultural extension research.

How to use theory in social science research. what is the process of applying theory in social science research?

How can researchers of social sciences can register their patents? If a researcher in social science like economics and management decides to register a concept firstly s/he developed, what is the process to register it?

Dear Scholars,

Which is the most important for human survival in the present era?

Your valuable comments will be highly appreciated.

Regards,

One of my review articles has been selected by IJSSRR. They asked me for an APC, which is 40 euro. I am pretty confused about their reputations by checking their website details.

Should I proceed to publish with them?

Website link: https://ijssrr.com/journal

What is the best Quantitative Research Methods textbook for Social Sciences Phd and MS Level students?

I am in the process of finalizing my individual grant proposal.

I really need your recommendation and your suggestions.

I have a question regarding my research, which will include interviews with experts and scientists. To ensure methodological reliability, I need at least two intercoders to participate in data analysis.

Could you advise how I can include these people in the project as intercoders?

Could these be the scientists who signed the LoI to collaborate on the project?

What is the correct way to describe this thing?

I will be grateful to you for any recommendations and advice.

Best regards,

Sabina

We are assessing content for originality, as lecturers reading assignments or as reviewers or editors assessing papers. What are the tools you use to detect AI content, which is the new challenge on originality?

I recently found https://contentdetector.ai/ works decently with undergrad student frauds, yet I really am curious whether there are other tools or procedures you recommend.

Good day, please i wish to request for any or list of free APC journals in Management of Social Science. it must not be SCOPUS or Thompson Reuters. Your kind response will be highly appreciated. Thank you.

Hello everyone. I am a novice researcher trying to do an experimental research study in business/social sciences field. I'd be really grateful if somebody could answer my questions.

looking for any reference for social sciences.

Seeking insights into the forefront of agricultural extension research, this question aims to explore the novel methodologies that have recently emerged in the field.

While it is common practice in the health field to use validated descriptors available in thesauri or glossaries, in other fields it is apparent that researchers use the terms they feel are most appropriate. By ignoring accepted terminology, their work may fall off the radar of database searches. An example of this is the choice of keywords that are not associated with validated descriptors. As a direct consequence, literature reviews in some areas, particularly in the social sciences, may produce results with increasing levels of error. I believe that this issue should be the subject of further reflection and debate.

I'm curious about interpretivism in research and whether it primarily centers on studying individuals or if it can be extended to include groups as valid research subjects.

Specifically, I want to compare two different actor groups, assuming that each group shares similar worldviews internally but differs from one another.

Do you think interpretivism can effectively be applied to study groups, or is it only suited for understanding individual perspectives?

If you have any additional literature or resources on this topic, please feel free to share them with me! I'm eager to expand my knowledge.

Dear colleagues,

My name is Sabina Augunas, and I hold a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Currently, I am a fellowship at TIB -Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, and I am preparing a grant proposal to participate in a competition for an individual postdoctoral grant. My research topic revolves around examining researchers' perspectives on predatory conferences.

Within this study, I plan to employ mixed methods, including conducting interviews with respondents. In the "Researchers in Germany and abroad with whom you have agreed to cooperate on this project" section of the grant proposal, I am seeking researchers who have experience with mixed methods and conducting research in the field of social sciences. If you possess such expertise, I would greatly appreciate your support and collaboration with this project, as it would significantly enhance my chances of obtaining the individual grant.

Scientific conferences have been an integral tool for scientific communication and knowledge dissemination among researchers for decades. In the modern world, where research evaluation, audit culture, and internationalization of science have become key factors, attending conferences and presentations has become a necessary component for achieving scientific goals in all areas of science. However, despite many scholars exploring available resources, there has been insufficient attention to predatory conferences. There is a lack of knowledge not only about the motivations of researchers to attend such conferences but also about the criteria that define a conference as predatory, as well as about the quantity of such conferences. Of particular concern is the statement that the number of predatory conferences may exceed an acceptable norm. If true, targeted efforts are needed to fill this gap.

The project aims to address the following research questions: What motivates participation in predatory conferences, and what are the long-term consequences for researchers? It is important to distinguish between legitimate and predatory conferences. To achieve these goals, qualitative and quantitative analytical tools will be utilized, including the Delphi method. Expert groups will be formed, taking into account scientific discipline, gender, career stages, and geographical regions, in order to broaden the scope of research. The study will involve comparing predatory and legitimate academic conferences, considering criteria such as peer-review processes, speaker quality, funding sources, publication opportunities, and reputation. The motivation and reasons for researchers participating in predatory conferences, as well as the role of organizers in this process, will be examined. Strategies and ethical principles will be developed during the research to assist researchers in avoiding predatory conferences and safeguarding their scientific interests. The impact of predatory conferences on the academic community, factors contributing to their proliferation, and ethical considerations will also be assessed. Ultimately, the project will enhance understanding of the differences between predatory and legitimate conferences, draw attention to the risks, and help researchers make informed decisions when choosing conferences and managing their careers.

Best regards,

Dr. Sabina Augunas

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I need a fast and good publication journal In social sciences. One month review process for the first response.

thanks

Although reiterated mantra of many studies about the monopolisation of decision-making by catholic clergy when having a closer look, it seems that the complex chain of ecclesia-forming interdependences and interactions each time allows consideration that are including opinions of larger community and even of dissidents from official teaching. As it could be proved by some discourses on reinterpretation of existing teaching, e. g. clergy celibacy or ordination of women.

Unethical business practices operate in different countries to varying degrees and participate in economic processes.

For many entities, market participants, business partners and consumers, they generate additional costs.

They can also be a source of gray economy growth, including avoiding paying taxes.

Thus, there are social costs for individual entities and financial for the entire economy.

On the capital markets, one of unethical business practices is, for example, insider trading, ie the use of confidential information by decision-makers with access to confidential information used to conduct transactions to purchase or sell financial instruments, including securities or other securities or other capital markets.

In individual countries, there are various instruments to combat the use of unethical business practices, the shadow economy, etc.

The effectiveness of individual normative solutions, the scale of restrictions applied, and the business mentality of market participants, entrepreneurs and businessmen are different.

Another mentality is related to the level of awareness regarding corporate social responsibility.

In individual countries, social campaigns are carried out suggesting the legitimacy of developing concepts based on corporate social responsibility.

In view of the above, please answer the following question: Is unethical business practices a negative external effect of non-ideal market structures or imperfection of the social market economy?

Please, answer, comments. I invite you to the discussion.

l would like to publish in a Social science journal am interested in health issues. Kindly assist with a list of journals and the publication fees if available.

This question is dedicated only to sharing important research of OTHER RESEARCHERS (not our own) about complex systems, self-organization, emergence, self-repair, self-assembly, and other exiting phenomena observed in Complex Systems.

Please keep in own mind that each research has to promote complex systems and help others to understand them in the context of any scientific filed. We can educate each other in this way.

Experiments, simulations, and theoretical results are equally important.

Links to videos and animations will help everyone to understand the given phenomenon under study quickly and efficiently.

What are the most serious problems of civilization development that should be solved as soon as possible? What are the global problems for which research should be developed and solutions to these problems resolved in 2019 and in subsequent years?

One of such research problems, which should not be postponed for an indefinite future, is the need to develop environment-friendly sustainable economic development in order to slow down the adverse process of global warming.

With the warming of the Earth's climate, the risk of more dramatic climate cataclysms, including tsunamis, increases.

Tsunami may be a derivative of the global warming problem. Global warming generates an increase in climate disasters, including more cases of tsunamis.

But not only is the risk of more violent and more dramatic tsunamis rising. Also in recent years, there has been more other types of climate and natural climate catatics, such as droughts, rainstorms, tornadoes and weather anomalies.

At present, it should no longer be asked whether global warming generates an increase in natural disasters only what rate of growth will be recorded in the future? So many data, research centers confirms the progressing process of global warming, that the problem is unquestionable.

More and more data points to the growing risk of climate change, unfavorable for human and life on the Earth, increase of climate disasters, climatic and weather anomalies, which are the result of global warming, rising average annual temperature near the Earth's surface.

Now we should just ask: How can these adverse processes be counteracted? What ecological technologies, renewable energy sources, how to help natural environments, how to rebuild them, such as afforestation, to build natural ecosystems absorbing greenhouse gases?

How to develop ecological business ventures? How to create financing systems for this type of pro-ecological projects? How to dispel international cooperation in this matter? What actions should be taken to move towards the development of a new ecological green economy?

How to develop environmentally sustainable economic development to slow down the unfavorable warming of the Earth's climate?

Please reply. I invite you to the discussion

the future of the humanities and social sciences

Content area is vast and not common for three streams and has wide range in social science

Hello Dear colleagues!

I'm interested in the political economy of human capital.

Please can someone help me with a database containing data by country on school and academic orientation by field (social sciences, technical sciences)?

Thanks in advance

Would anyone be able to recommend me any reference dedicated to determining False Discovery Rate? In the literature (social sciences), it is set at 0.05-0.1; I am mainly interested in learning in which situations it can be less conservative.

I paid for the open access fee of my paper, and yet you block me from posting a Public text.

Panter-Brick C, Eggerman, M (2018). The field of Medical Anthropology in Social Science & Medicine.

Social Science & Medicine 196: 233-239.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953617306500?via%3Dihub [Open access].

Artificial intelligence are spread over several fiels of science. E.g. social sciences. What are these fields of science where are uncommon apply the artificial intelligence?

How scientific method in social sciences is different from natural sciences

When to use Descriptive Analysis of data in Qaulitative Research in Social Sciences ?

I want to inquire about various methods to prove the contingency perspective in social sciences.

21 items 👉🏼 4 sub-constructs 👉🏼 1 construct

33 items 👉🏼 4 sub-constructs 👉🏼 1 construct

so there are three levels:

lower order 👉🏼 medium order 👉🏼 higher order

The results are significant. But tell me, can we squeeze these 21 and 33 items into above 2 constructs, respectively?

Would like to connect if you have explored using quantitative methods for intersectionality analysis.

Henry Mintzberg did his Ph.D thesis studying 10 executives. He wrote a book about ten different role of a successful manager. Frederic Taylor invented the scientific management theory By observing the work in the factory!

Adam Smith studies the pin's factory and wrote a book about the Wealth of Nations...

What are the basis for good theory? Is it a statistical rigorous approach? Or is it à in depth understanding of the reality? How can we write a good theory which is a statement of causality! A Good theory help us to understand or predict the future

It would be nice to get reading succestions addressing the topic why modelling societies and their dynamic developments may fail. What are the challenges and pitfalls when one attempts to create models that aim to forecast the future developments. Economic literature, system dynamic approaches, predictive social science may address these issues with modelling. I'm looking for good entry points to these discussion.

In 2016, Elsevier bought the SSRN . Does this outright acquisition make publications in SSRN have acquire the scholarly rigor associated with Elsevier publication? Especially when elsevier is seen to have openly identify with SSRN publications.

Please, what are your thoughts on this?

I need a list of affordable journals in the social sciences which are Scopus Indexed.

Thank you very much.

Look for differences between these two sciences and give a personal opinion on whether or not the union of both is positive.

The similarity analysis feature in discourses, is an analytical tool of the IRAMUTEQ software. As a result, a tree diagram is generated which can be configured as a Venn diagram. However, the groups of words by similarity starting from a dominant word to the child words, using the co-occurrence principle. In discourse analysis, the semantic domains are checked and the derived words follow the same principle. In this case, in what aspects does IRAMUTEQ's similarity analysis differ from semantic domains in discourse analysis?

This is a topic which is not given much importance and I think what is very interesting know the opinion of the another person

Although the preprints submissions can be interesting to check the repercussions, criticisms and suggestions pointed out, I think that a not very good choice of platform can have limited results. Among the platforms researched, I observed that OSF, Scielo and Elsevier preprints offer a reasonable structure for preprints submissions and analysis. In this sense, I kindly ask for suggestions on which platform may be the most indicated for a preprint submission in the field of social sciences.

Epistemologically, scientific realism is (say, mainly) based on the idea that we generate theoretical entities to understand, describe, and discover a structure in the reality; these entities are unobservable, yet they are real, they exist independently from our research and our mind. In other words, these entities are not merely instruments to discover reality; they are real (see Alexander Wendt, for example among others). However, for critical realism (e.g., Roy Bhaskar) this point is not clear for me: Do theoretical entities we generate to understand the "structured reality" have their ontological-real existence independently from our mind? are they real, not merely instruments to understand reality?

thanks in advance

Has anyone had good/bad/indifferent experience with any of the Virtual Research Environments on the market? I notice that a lot them operate in the Biosciences area. Has anyone used one in Social Sciences research?

Research area is about teenagers lifestyles.

With the emergence of chatGPT, educators are panicking about cheating and assessment. But what do the students have to say? As they say, students who are going to cheat, are already doing so. What about the rest? What are they thinking and exploring? As a teacher or a social science researcher, if you could ask high school students about chatGPT and AI, what would you want to know?

I'm developing a study on male prostitution, but I'm finding it difficult to get interviews. Most of the guys I came in contact with are willing to do interviews as long as I pay for their time. They claim that while they spend some of their time talking to me, they could be earning money with a client. One of them said that researchers commonly appropriate their stories, receive the title of master and doctor, while they do not gain anything. I felt that their arguments are valid and that, in fact, it would be fair pay (not for the interview but for the time) however, this attitude may run into an ethical issue.

So, I would like to ask you about this impasse, how do you see payment for the time of interviews, in this specific case?

I am developing a questionnaire for social science. The preliminary questionnaire has 35 items with 6 domains. However, one of the domains was optional ( 5 items), where only those who had been involved in an accident before needed to answer that questions. Unfortunately, my answer option for answering the questionnaire did not include not applicable.

When I run the EFA, parallel analysis suggests 5 factors. But this optional domain loads closely with another item with different instructions/ other domains.

So my question is, can I remove this one domain ( 5 items) from the EFA analysis and run the remaining 30 items for EFA. Then, re-include this optional domain when I run for CFA. Can I use expert judgment /based on the importance of that optional domain to the questionnaire to retain it as it is?

( I try to rerun the 35 items and 6 domain/factor ( including the optional domain) using CFA, and the result indicated good convergent and discriminant validity)

I wonder if this method is permissible or how I should go about it? Thanks

First I would like to apologize for my limitations writing in English.

I am developing a doctoral thesis in geography whose theme led me to read about the BODY. So, I would like to know the opinion of colleagues regarding two questions:

What test is appropriate for a data set with 10 continuous dependent variables and one dichotomous independent variable? Is it possible to perform 10 separate independent t-tests or some sort of ANOVA (MANOVA)? The sample size is 1022.

Dear science group,

I would like to ask you, what experience do you have with journal "Open Journal of Social Sciences" ISSN Print: 2327-5952 ISSN Online: 2327-5960

There are to many predatory journals.

Thanks for your time,

Hana

I would love to hear about any materials you have found helpful and have inspired you to suggest to graduate students, doctoral students, researchers, and academicians to read for understanding or for refreshing their knowledge on research methodology and emerging research methods in social science (or management in specific but not necessary). These can be anything, for example, new books, classic books, and journal articles.

I hope the answers will help to create a comprehensive list of suggested readings on Research Methodology and Research Methods that would be helpful to anyone interested. Thank you!!

Hi,

Does anyone know any papers/books from social science that discuss the strengths and limitations of qualitative and quantitative methods?

Many thanks!

I'm interested in the intersection of mathematics and social sciences, and I'm looking for expert opinions on ethical content in mathematical history.

Biosocial studies encompass a set of approaches constituted by the space of knowledge generated by the interaction between biology and sociology. This space takes us back to the beginnings of social studies where biology and social sciences walked side by side. At present, these studies are being revitalised. For this reason, we want to contribute at Societies to strengthening this discipline and its research. When we conceive of biosocial research, we automatically think of medicine. However, the relationship between genetics and society, epigenetics, social evolution, the environment and the social, etc. can also be present in this field of study. In short, biosocial study is a diverse and plural set of approaches of great interest and relevance for today's world. In this Topic, we want to bring together the best international biosocial research. For this reason, we hope to feature the work of social scientists interested and concerned with the environment, health, diseases, biology, disability, old age, climate and energies in their relation to society. All these approaches also need a broad methodological perspective, so the issue is open to theoretical and empirical (quantitative and qualitative) work. We believe that studies of a conceptual nature with future hypotheses would also be of great interest. This issue aims to advance biosocial studies from a broad and diversified approach. Biosocial study helps us to better understand the surrounding reality. This is apparnt is we consider, for a moment, the numerous studies on SARS-CoV-2, or the possibilities that the social sciences offer to biomedicine or the science of care. On the other hand, we would like this issue to help biologists understand that the social sciences can help and complement their research. All in all, this is an exciting and thought-provoking Topic.

Do you notice any cases of censorship in social sciences in the world today? What is censored? Who are the censors? Is there a big field of phenomena which cannot be discussed today? What are the concequences of what we (social scholars) do not discuss?

Advances in Social Science and Culture....Sholink

I been contacted by them a few times by email? Thanks

I have seen many applications of ecological niche models, especially within the context of spatial epidemiology and vector-borne diseases. I was wondering can such models find an application in other domains (i.e., social science problems with point occurrence data e.g., crimes, or in disasters even) beyond geographies of species?

I love teaching giving back to society

Can anyone help me to find a discussion paper in social science discipline?

I need to know the stricture of a Discussion Article.

The scenario is as follows:

- Imagine a phenomenon was studied by others;

- They concluded that there is correlation between the increase in that phenomenon and the increase in its outcomes;

- After reading these studies, can I hypothesize that if the phenomenon will prevail/ increase, the outcomes will also prevail/increase as well?

- Will my hypothesis be valid or is it incorrect to draw future conclusions on past ones?

- P.S. Sorry not to reveal what I am hypothisizing because, once revealed, it will lose its magic :)

Although this is not a new theme, the phenomena of "memory manipulation" and "politics of memory" always seem current to us. Even though they are different terms, they are close from a semantic point of view. Memory policies resort to manipulating memory using conditioning actions that, in some aspects, recall Skinner's reinforcement schemes. Authoritarian and totalitarian regimes have adopted this strategy in the iconography of classrooms and the contents of school textbooks. Thus, we can point to the school as a space where the propaganda of non-democratic political regimes intensified their politics of memory? Can the same phenomenon also be observed in democratic regimes?

I am PhD candidate in environmental sociology and currently waiting for the viva voce examination that will be expected in December 2022. I just would like to know, what is a good or minimum h-index for Scopus that we can say is a baseline for PhD graduates to be eligible to apply for senior lecturer/ academician post in university?

Name of the book along with its availability in India

I have data from European Social Survey (24 countries) and want to model a cross level interaction. Can I do this with a simple random intercept (fixed slope) model? Or do I have to model a more complex random slope model? And if so, are 24 countries sufficient?

I am not explicit interested in explain the different slopes on Level 2 due to the cross level interaction. If its possible I would do that, but I think I need more countries right?

But i definetely want to show, that trust in institutions (Level 1 variable) depends on the level of corruption (level 2 variable) in a country. Can I do this with random intercept fixed slope model?