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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.
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I am being blocked from posting a copy of the paper on my RG profile. If you are a RG staff, please post it for me.
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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?
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Lots of applications!
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Medical disaster management, agriculture, Judiciary, Politics, arts & creativity.
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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.
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How scientific method in social sciences is different from natural sciences
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Personally, I do not believe that it is still there such thing as "scientific method". I think this is a misleading term which hides the most important issue: the sicentific practice as a whole.
And I personally believe that there are some characteristics which are universal to all scientific inquiry: argumentation, foundations on conceptual frameworks and previous research, work in accepted methods, and confrontation of evidence to what it means in previously constructed around what is researched. In addition, the use of delimitated terms and concepts, different from the used in daily reasoning. I think it based on my practice and the practice of colleagues, and in the work of G. Bachellard and J. Rostand.
I think also that social science and natural science created different traditions, related to their objects of study. Both of them are valid and interesting, because what matters is the creativity and new pathways created in order to research in different topics. I am fascinated with the work on high energies physics, as much as how they solve the puzzles on species evolution, human cooperation psychogenesis or etnographies to know on different social groups and phenomena.
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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.
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Why did you say NOT Scopus or T-R? Most people would actually want that specifically because it sounds much better.
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When to use Descriptive Analysis of data in Qaulitative Research in Social Sciences ?
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Probably the best known source on this topic is by Sandelowski, and I have attached a copy of her article. In my opinion, descriptive qualitative research is most useful when rather little is known about a topic, so that simple description will be a clear contribution to knowledge.
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I want to inquire about various methods to prove the contingency perspective in social sciences.
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The contingency theory of management proposes that the most effective style of management depends on the specific situation at hand. To prove this theory, researchers use various methods including: like case studies ,experiment , survey , interview , observations.
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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?
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You may start with measurement theory and theoretically establish your construct of interest. Also, check Chapter 1: https://www.smartpls.com/documentation/getting-started/pls-sem-book
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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?
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I am interested; please guide me how to join in your team.
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Would like to connect if you have explored using quantitative methods for intersectionality analysis.
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You could have a look at:
The approach is like CHAID but is is model based and uses random effects not fixed which is protective of finding unimportant unreliable results.
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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
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Management science as the study of the practice of management is part of social science, the study of humans and their interactions in society with other humans and with their environment, their thinking and purpose in life. Is there an excellent scientific theory? Yes and no. Forming scientific theory, the process of it is not perfect. You can observe something, make an inference about it, formulating a hypothesis, and start collecting more data and testing it in different circumstances. And other scientists start testing it, all to establish the objective truth about it.
Or you can come up with a thought about something and start collecting data and testing it. So you can start with an observation or just a thought. A theory is the explanation of effects, causes of relations of phenomena in the natural world that can be tested through a scientific method.
Watch the video’s about the storytelling of science where you get different perspectives of how science is conducted. The Great Debate: The Storytelling of Science part 1 and 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40YIIaF1qiw.
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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.
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This model shown below is certainly not a failure to represent our social system. However, it should be better understood when you find that it is not based on actual people but on what they do. These operational expressions or agencies (which I also call entities in my book) are for the aggregate of similar and related activities and it is due to their being commonly shared. There are only 6 of these entities needed to represent all of the macroeconomic activities within a country not including foreign trade. Ten kinds of transactions are divided between then using 19 kinds of flows or exchanges of goods and services, etc., for money.
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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?
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Dear Musah Osumanu Doumbia As indicated elsewhere here on RG https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_SSRN_Electronic_Journal_is_an_peer_reviewed_journal SSRN is a platform for pre-prints, like many other numerous pre-print servers (for an idea see for example https://asapbio.org/preprint-servers Warning: not everything mentioned there is still valid).
Recently SSRN received some additional credits compared to other pre-print platforms. According to https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/science-and-technology/elseviers-scopus-expands-to-include-ssrn-preprints it states, and I quote “preprints from SSRN, its world-leading early-stage research and preprint platform, are now available through Scopus, Elsevier’s abstract and citation database.” Furthermore, they indicate: “Preprints in Scopus are only available in author profiles that already have a peer-reviewed publication history.”
Last but not least: “Preprints are increasingly becoming an integral part of the research landscape. As well as providing a valuable early opportunity to understand the direction research is heading, preprints are a positive way for early career researchers to receive feedback ahead of submitting articles to journals.”
In other words, a SSRN preprint is and remains a preprint that is not equal to a peer-reviewed paper in a for example Scopus indexed journal.
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I need a list of affordable journals in the social sciences which are Scopus Indexed.
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Thank You Professor Yuriy Vovk a
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Look for differences between these two sciences and give a personal opinion on whether or not the union of both is positive.
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This issue has been pursued by philosophers under the heading "unity of science," which attempts to specify an abstract set of goals and procedures that all sciences share at an ontological and epistemological level. Note that there is also considerable push-back on this entire enterprise by those who argue for the "disunity" of the sciences.
Another relevant discussion falls under the heading of "demarcation criteria" for the definition of what is a science. For example, Popper used such criteria to argue that psychoanalysis was not a science.
Even from a post-positivist point of view, researchers cannot escape their own subjectivity, so what happens when researchers attempt to understand the subjectivity of others? I think this kind of double subjectivity is inevitable when we ask what "causes" behavior, but I can't think of a parallel in the so-called natural or physical sciences.
And, a related issue concerns the extent to which the objects under study understand and react to being studied. This applies not just to the immediate research process but to any reactions to the research outcomes. In this regard, research on humans and the meaning of its outcomes is definitely different from research on rocks, electrons, viruses, etc.
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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?
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I believe it is possible to do the same type of analysis using R. Could anyone suggest a script that would make this analysis possible?
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This is a topic which is not given much importance and I think what is very interesting know the opinion of the another person
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In recent years, some experts in the social sciences have argued that the field lacks diversity and inclusivity. There is a need to ensure that the perspectives and experiences of underrepresented groups are incorporated into research, teaching, and practice in social sciences.
Additionally, some researchers have criticised the over-reliance on quantitative methods and the neglect of qualitative research in social sciences. Qualitative research methods can provide a more nuanced and in-depth understanding of social phenomena, which is essential for addressing complex social issues.
Another issue in social sciences is the replication crisis. Many studies in social sciences have not been successfully replicated, and this has raised concerns about the reliability and validity of research findings. More attention needs to be given to the replication of research findings to ensure that the conclusions drawn from social science research are valid and reliable.
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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
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The United Kingdom will get a new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, which has raised hopes that the country can reinvigorate its position as a green-energy leader...
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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.
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https://psyarxiv.com/ is common for psych, but if your goal is to get a lot of readers, with any of these it will be helped by posting links on social media. As since we are on ResearchGate, you can post here too.
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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?
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They are real as angels and demons to scholars of the middle ages. Possibly a simplistic take, but just theoretical entities we generate to understand the "structured reality" have their ontological-real existence independently from our mind, whether "fallen" angels or not, they do not exist physically, but as collections of memes repeated over and over until they are "truer" than reality for humans(1.). If I were to make an analogy the collection of peace, love, and mud that swirled through the minds and differing collections of people at Woodstock seems and acts exactly like an angel straight out of the Bible. Not present bodily, but able to manifest in the actions and emotions of people. With the opposite but same situation, hoping to recreate Woodstock at the Rolling Stones concert at Altmont California, where "demonic forces" roamed.
I can't for the life of me see any difference between us acting in concert seemingly individually yet collectively through heart and mind, with even ephemeral movements and goals, as if humans have a group mind, like the bee, ant, and termite hives. (2.)Capable of amazing engineering or mass suicide like lemmings. The yin and yang forces anthropomorphized. Our scent marks and reactions to them being our idea of truths and the "tribes" with which we align with. And ideas of truth is the right phrase, for if we hear a concept over and over again the illusory truth effect (3.) kicks in
and a tendency to believe false information or illogical arguments to be correct after repeated exposure to them, even when in hindsight no one should've believed them in the first place. The combination of hive or group mind plus illusionary truth seems particularly acute in the hard sciences and medicine. The Earth is round and you should wash your hands after an autopsy before delivering a baby(4.), seem self-evident today. But whether it is to cling to a worldview as antioxidants heal, and free radicals damage (5.) blinded science to the crucial role the free radical nitric oxide has in our immune systems(6) just as the phlogiston theory two centuries ago blinded science for decades to the role oxygen actually has in combustion.(7.)
Occam's Razor (8.) and the Scientific Method (9) were developed to free humanity from these tendencies, but they are limited the former is not proof only an indication, after all having a cold and being insulin resistant at the same time is more common than an exotic disease that matches all the symptoms, and the latter many theories cannot be tested in a lab.
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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?
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This is a very interesting topic, but it is still a method of data collection that is not much used in some areas. I suggest you edit your discussion and include the keywords "methodology", "qualitative analysis", "thematic analysis" and "qualitative research". I think this will give more visibility to your discussion attracting some interactions that may help you.
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Research area is about teenagers lifestyles.
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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?
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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?
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To me, it sounds like there is no way to avoid paying in this circumstance, but I suggest you look at previously published research on prostitutes (both male and female) to find out what is common practice.
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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
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Ms Khaireena When constructing a questionnaire, several dimensions or scales can be used for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). However, it is critical to evaluate the consequences of such a decision and to be open about the technique in your study report.
When utilizing EFA, it appears that the optional domain does not mesh well with the other questions in the questionnaire in your scenario. Removing it from the EFA analysis and then re-adding it in the CFA analysis might be a viable strategy, as long as the optional domain is still relevant to the overarching research topic and you have a strong rationale for including it in the CFA.
It's also worth noting that when you use CFA, you're testing a specific model, and this optional domain must load exactly as you described in your model. If it does not fit well in the model, it may impair the validity of your results, therefore keep that in mind while selecting whether to include or omit this domain.
Expert judgment can be used to support your decision to keep the optional domain, but it's also important to use other validation methods, such as cross-validating your results with other methods of analysis and performing sensitivity analysis to see how the results change with different sample sizes or model specifications.
To summarize, it is critical to be honest about your research methodologies and to examine the ramifications of deleting an optional domain from the EFA analysis while including it in the CFA analysis. Cross-validating your data with different techniques of analysis is also advised, as is consulting with an expert in SEM or a statistician to have a better understanding of the results.
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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:
  1. Is it possible to think of the body as a geographical analysis scale as legitimate as the others commonly used?
  2. In this context, what are the limits and potential of thinking of the body as space and object of study in geography?
** I accept indications of references on this topic. Thanks in advance.
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Yes - and a specific example is, for instance, how disabilities of various sorts are expressed as the volumes a body might occupy while stationary and in motion, and other volumes and geometries of the the senses ( or lack of ) when intersected against the environment from furniture to the room, building, sidewalks, to transit stops, the vehicles, at origin and destination - and with other more ordinary human bodies and guide animals. It could also apply to disaster and emergency response, where where first responders need to traverse sometimes miles of rubble and move stretchers around staircases in nearly collapsed buildings. Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language" ( https://www.patternlanguage.com/ ) superficially seems to be about architecture, but reads more like human scale geography (space, time, and people). Much our attention in day to life, to some degree is determining our our body might fit in a space or move through it, at all scales. Even our thinking and language is founded on spatial metaphors of embodiment - George Lakoff, "Women, Fire and Dangerous Things" ( What Categories Reveal about the Mind ) "... conceptual metaphors are grounded in embodied representations; that is to say, we use sensory-motor experience to conceptualize abstract domains such as time, feelings, interpersonal relationships, etc. .... Thus, given the prominence of space in our perceptual and motor experience, spatial dimensions are frequently used to support rich metaphorical conceptual systems ..."
It a domain of geography that is at the intersection of many different fields ( Hmmm ... like most geographic thought). Anatomy since ancient times has used geographical terms to describe the human body, and now GIS analysis helps bring together layers of spatial geometries and attributes, "Geographical Information System Applied to a Biological System: Pelvic Girdle Ontogeny as a Morphoscape".
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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.
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Dear Ngozi you can surely use MANOVA or any other testing strategy the point is 'which is your goal ?' Having 1022 statistical units anything is statistically significant even with a very small difference between the groups. So I suggest you to move your focus in 'Which variable allows for a better discrimination between the two classes ?' You can solve this problem in many ways (linear discriminant analysis, knn, canonical analysis or by a simple ROC curve). Given you have so many data I suggest you to generate your model with a subset of data (training set) and look at the generated model performance on a training set made of the data you did not use in the previous analysis.
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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
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The journal “Open Journal of Social Sciences” is published by Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) a publisher mentioned in the Beall’s list (https://beallslist.net ). This is a red flag that the publisher (and consequently all their journals) might have issues. Indeed, the publisher is discussed not that positively before:
-See also the numerous questions/discussions here on RG:
Looking at journal level:
-Their indexing info https://www.scirp.org/journal/indexing.aspx?journalid=2430 mentions “world class databases” but they are not
-They mention a Google Scholar based impact factor; this misleadingly suggests a link to a real impact factor (they are not indexed in Clarivate’s SCIE, so they have no impact factor)
Although the papers are reasonably edited and therefor look pretty professional, I see at best a publisher that tries to get their act together, but it is not reputable and being one of your first publications I think it is not the best choice.
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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!!
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If you're interested in thinking, but not necessarily a cookbook, try Claude Bernard's Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine. Bernard was a driving force in medicine's 1800s-era quest to become scientific, so you see him wrestling the the premises that will ultimately define acceptable methods. Think of this as a rigorous study in "why" rather than "how to."
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Does anyone know any papers/books from social science that discuss the strengths and limitations of qualitative and quantitative methods?
Many thanks!
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I agree with all my colleaques answers
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I'm interested in the intersection of mathematics and social sciences, and I'm looking for expert opinions on ethical content in mathematical history.
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One of the most important features that distinguish mathematics from other sciences is abstraction, so some of them think that mathematics is abstract concepts. Abstraction is simply (a mental process based on separating one of the properties from something, and considering it independent of others).
(The Link Between Mathematics and Ethics) was built on the basis of the new view of man in contemporary psychology, as this view tends towards the primacy of the mind. In other words, this is consistent with the new scientific view that began with the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, which proved the centrality of the mind. After World War II, many psychologists pointed out that the abolition of the role of the mind in human behavior and the subjection of the mind to instinct in the method of psychoanalysis led to the dehumanization of man. Therefore, psychology in the new view considers reason and determination as the highest human faculties, and they distinguish man from animals. (And the mind and the will not only control the body, but they also control the emotions and nullify them when necessary. By subordinating the emotions to the mind, harmony and happiness become within the reach of man). (And the old view of science considers that the human mind cannot choose freely because matter does not act except by mechanical necessity. This is the reason why the old view tended to explain human actions in the language of instinct). In short, this study comes within this framework, that is, we proceed here from the fact that man is a conscious force, and what mathematics does is that it creates what can be called a “moral authority” with mental foundations, meaning that the ethics generated by mathematics are based on the authority of the mind, not fear. (According to Dr. Mahmoud Bakir's opinion).
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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.
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Hello Juan; All of conservation science is biosocial. Our interactions with the natural world have proven to be pretty damaging and fixing the problems is often a social solution. Social scientists and conservation advocates have a critical, cooperative role to play is helping get us out of our present dilemmas. Best regards, Jim Des Lauriers
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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?
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Dear Agnieszka,
Of course there is censorship of every kind and everywhere today in the social sciences: from self-censorship due to multiple kinds of fears (including smearing of colleagues in ways that are defamatory and without any chance to reply which is a growing problem even in scholarly journals) and taboos, to financial and political influence that defines "current debates", to redefinitions of and limitations of fields that change what questions and what conclusions and what methodologies are allowed, to disciplinary barriers, to hierarchies of corporate journals that determine what is reviewed and by whom and what space is allotted and who can be cited, and every other kind of conflicts of interest and hierarchy, even in book reviews that now have to be promotional for colleagues rather than honest and constructive criticism and debates. And most journals today have eliminated letters to the editor and debates, while discussion platforms are also pre-screened Ralph Nader used to say that in legal scholarship, you can't present a new idea because you "can't footnote it" and today you can't get a minority idea through a "majority" peer review in most fields, where the standard is now subjective agreement. To be heard with credibility, you need to have your own journal and press but that is also subject to controls.
I suggest that you focus on solutions:
(1) de-politicizing peer review, is one, so that following a methodology protects even unpopular conclusions. Here is one of two articles that I have offered to set the model, in response to politicization in one of my fields. (This one was censored and then finally published and the other one on book review standards can still not be published.)
“Returning Discipline to the Discipline: A Model Procedure for Reviews in Anthropology, Other Social Sciences, and Related Disciplines,” Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum, 2018, Volume 8, Issue 1, Article 10, pages 301 - 326. Available at: http://trace.tennessee.edu/catalyst/vol8/iss1/10
(2) You can also try to set up a new e-journal that allows for alternative work and is open to work that has been censored. If anyone reading this would like to do that and has a platform, contact me so that I can join you.
If you just want to read about the general problem today, take a look at this piece and the special issue of Catalyst that I edited to open debate on this issue.
“Foreword: The Death of Social Sciences in an Era of Multi-Cultural Corporatism (Neo-Liberalism): With Efforts at Resuscitation”, Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum, 2018, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Article 2, pages 1 – 52.
Here's a short article on the general problem globally.
“Are Social Scientists Next to be Imprisoned and Tortured?: A Call to Unite and Oppose the Criminalization of Social Science, Contexts (American Sociological Association), 2019. Available at: https://contexts.org/blog/are-social-scientists-next-to-be-imprisoned-and-tortured-a-call-to-unite-and-oppose-the-criminalization-of-social-science/
You can also look at a piece I put up on ResearchGate in response to political pressures in Anthropology that are a result of the current war in Ukraine. The censorship today is exactly the opposite line from 30 years ago when the line then was that Russia was a "democracy". The fact that censorship can move so quickly and easily from one position to its opposite shows how politicized social science has become.
Best,
David Lempert, Ph.D., J.D., M.B.A., E.D. (Hon.)
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Advances in Social Science and Culture....Sholink
I been contacted by them a few times by email? Thanks
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The publisher behind the journal “Advances in Social Science and Culture” is “Scholink Co., Ltd.” (http://www.scholink.org/Home.html ). This publisher is mentioned in the Beall’s list of potential predatory publishers (https://beallslist.net ). This is a red flag and by itself not enough to say that the journal/publisher is predatory, but there are more red flags:
-Contact info are most likely just virtual offices, see for example https://www.davincivirtual.com/loc/us/california/los-angeles-virtual-offices/facility-4424
-According to their FAQ section they state in question nine “Scholink is a new publisher found and created in 2012. Therefore, the ability to assess our impact has not been possible. Once we have enough data, we will place it on the journal homepage.” Now ten years later not a single of their journals has any serious indexing (Scopus, impact factor etc.)
-The same is true for the journal “Advances in Social Science and Culture”. Not a single serious index (http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/assc ). Just (mostly) pointless ‘indexing’ like Yahoo…
-Papers have virtually no editing
-The announcement section (http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/assc/announcement ) mentions relative while they mean related and talk about “doctorial [sic] degree” and at the same time “proficiency in English”
-Looking at their editorial team there are no reviewers from the US and the UK (http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/assc/about/editorialTeam ). In other words, why use locations that suggest this origin while it is not
So, not sure whether predatory is the most accurate ‘label’ but the quality is questionable. Personally, I would avoid this one.
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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?
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Dear Anwar,
ENMs can be used (and I'm sure they are used) outside the scope of ecology, but I guess they have different names in different fields. They are simple models for datasets containing some predictors and a 0/1 response variable - and it is not specific to ecology. And most of the ENMs are not spatial models sensu stricto - they are displayed in the geographic space, and one can study the spatial autocorelation of the residuals, but otherwise the models do not need spatial information to be trained.
HTH,
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I love teaching giving back to society
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يمكنك الاستفادة من كتب الدكتور علي الوردي فانه جيد في هذا المجال
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Can anyone help me to find a discussion paper in social science discipline?
I need to know the stricture of a Discussion Article.
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Have you thought about looking at the history of the various disciplines that comprise the social sciences? This includes when they entered the academy and became separate disciplines. Of course, different countries have different designations. The late 18th early 19th century are important, especially in Europe and then North America.
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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 :)
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The good part is the technique can be applied to any area. However, the bad part is not that easy. I used it on the question of free will (philosophy) . The second part of that article to be published soon hopefully. Admittedly, the technique requires a long steep learning curve. Note it is not Buckingham's Theorem that appear in many books and papers. You can read more in my book Basics of Fluid Mechanics Dimensional Chapter (not easy to read but provide the flavor even to none fluid mechanics people).
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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?
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Dear Doctor,
if you still intend to participate in research on the contemporary perception of cultural heritage, access to the questionnaire has been opened http://dziedzictwokulturowe.pl -
The form has been entered into the program that allows you to select the place for filling in the questionnaire. I encourage you to cooperate.
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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?
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In general this is virtually impossible to say. I depends on numerous variables, think of:
-Difference between the various disciplines
-Differences between countries (and between different universities)
-Other criteria than H-index. I see here on RG that in some countries it depends on number of publications in Scopus and/or papers in journals with an impact factor
-Etc.
I found a source that not looked at number of publications but indeed to the closely related metric the h-index (for more info, and criticism, see for example https://www.aacc.org/cln/articles/2019/september/scientific-impact-and-the-h-index).
They studied your question and they found “A colleague and I surveyed typical values for academic physicians in 14 medical specialties (Am J Clin Pathol 2019;151:286-91). We found that, on average, assistant professors have an h-index of 2-5, associate professors 6-10, and full professors 12-24. These are mean or median values only—the distribution of values at each rank is very wide. If you hope to win a Nobel Prize, your h-index should be at least 35 and preferably closer to 70.”
But this is only studied in the field of medicine. In general I hope that selection is based on more than just counting numbers (publications, citations, etc.).
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Name of the book along with its availability in India
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There are various interesting books that render guidance on scale development. Here are some good reads.
DeVellis, R. F., & Thorpe, C. T. (2022). Scale development: Theory and applications (5th ed.). SAGE. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/scale-development/book269114
Furr, R. M. (2011). Scale construction and psychometrics for social and personality psychology . SAGE. https://methods.sagepub.com/book/scale-construction-and-psychometrics-for-social-and-personality-psychology
Irwing, P., Booth, T., & Hughes, D. J. (Eds.). (2018). The Wiley handbook of psychometric testing: A multidisciplinary reference on survey, scale and test development (1st ed.). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118489772
Johnson, R. L., & Morgan, G. B. (2016). Survey scales: A guide to development, analysis, and reporting. The Guilford Press. https://www.routledge.com/Survey-Scales-A-Guide-to-Development-Analysis-and-Reporting/Johnson-Morgan/p/book/9781462526963
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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?
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1) Improve humans' quality of life?
2) Preserve the Earth and its Biodiversity in any given condition?
2) Understanding and explaining Nature and the Universe around us?
3) Support local/regional sociopolitical interests?
4) There is no specific purpose...?
5) Other (please specify)
PS: if you supply literature and/or links to other discussions, please add your opinion also.
AB
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Understand and explore nature (and people as part of it). On my opinion, anything else is already politics
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In my opinion, technologies for processing large data sets in Big Data database systems and other information technologies, information processing services on the Internet or data obtained from the Internet, including social media portals. The Internet of Things will continue to grow dynamically, support systems for enterprise management processes, computerized data processing, Business Intelligence, etc. In addition, other technologies typical for the current fourth technological revolution, known as Industry 4.0.
In view of the above, the current questions is:
What technologies have accelerated their development due to the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic?
What information technologies will develop intensively?
Please, answer, comments,
I invite you to the discussion,
Have a nice day, Stay healthy! Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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Dear Ljubomir,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, in recent years there has been a rapid development of internet technologies, ICT information technologies and Industry 4.0. The SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic accelerated the development of these technologies as the scale of internetisation and digitisation of many business processes increased during the pandemic. This growth not only occurred in service companies that were covered by lockdowns and sold their services (e.g. catering) via the Internet but also in many manufacturing companies that were not covered by lockdowns. In many manufacturing companies, the efficiency of production processes has been improved through the use of modern technologies to improve production logistics, quality control systems and computerised business management support systems. Through the use of new ICT information technologies and Industry 4.0, systems for information security, Internet data transfer, cyber security, etc. have been improved. In many companies, computerised digital twin systems have been built to improve multi-criteria modelling of economic and other processes, decision-making processes and management of the business entity. The SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic, through the use of home quarantines and lockdowns, has forced the scale-up of the internetisation and digitalisation of remote communication processes and various aspects of the economic processes carried out in companies and enterprises.
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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I have been testing the assumptions of Pearson's correlation and there are some weak linear relationships, but sometimes the R2 values are very small eg 0.002. Given that my research is being conducted in the messy world of social science, is this an acceptable value? If not, what is an acceptable value to assume linearity?
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A high R-square of above 60%(0.60) is required for studies in the 'pure science' field because the behaviour of molecules and/or particles can be reasonably predicted to some degree of accuracy in science research; while an R-square as low as 10% is generally accepted for studies in the field of arts, humanities and social sciences because human behaviour cannot be accurately predicted, therefore, a low R-square is often not a problem in studies in the arts, humanities and social science field. However, that should not be an excuse for not improving the R-square value if it can be improved.
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Kindly ans in brief and refer and book for sample slection plz
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All due respect to you for this question.
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which is mostly used application for data analysis in social science?
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personal interview. Field Stud.
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Memory policies promote places, monuments and even objects as memorial records of a past that should be remembered and celebrated as registers of a culture and identity. Through activities framed in pedagogies of memory, schools insert in their didactic activities the visit to places of memory. But is the pedagogy of memory dependent on memory policies established in educational policies or encouraged by national educational strategies? Can we say that memory policies pave the way to the establishment of memory pedagogy in school activities?
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Schools operate in highly-regulated, often non-marketized, environments that are rigidly defined by and measured through external inspection, including examination-based student learning improvement performance targets. Schools are required to meet government, local authority, and other performance measures. In the Foucauldian sense, therefore, it ought not surprise that the pedagogy of memory should be driven via school activities by memory policies that are rooted in national educational strategies.
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It is the trending topic for a publisher this week.
I want to learn the opinion of Academia members. Is it due to environmental factors or personal over-ambition?
Why does anyone commit fraud?
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Dear Prof. Ferhan Kuyucak Sengur and all the respected RG colleagues,
This respected portal (i.e. RG) defines plagiarism as:
The term “plagiarism” has different meanings, but it usually includes copying somebody else’s work without permission.
On the other side, self-plagiarism is when the author republishes portions of his/her own previously written research work while authoring a new work.
I may be somewhat old-fashioned, but please have a look at the following golden principles on how to avoid plagiarism in academic writing, especially Self-Plagiarism:
  1. Never use the "Copy-Paste" trend: Use your own words instead of copying the words of others. Needless to say that if you are using your own words, then there is no chance of plagiarism accusing.
  2. Never repeat yourself: There are many re-published articles that are slightly or even considerably modified, and still not changed!
  3. If you have co-authors, just trust your words!
  4. If you use your own words, there should be no plagiarism issue. In turn, there is no need for the tools of plagiarism checking. Since there is no guarantee that the original content of your manuscript might not be copied and sold to others before it is published by you, I discourage using any free-software checkers for plagiarism; some of them are betrayers. Despite that offline ones are rare and if you are insisting to use anti-plagiarism software, offline checker programs are safer than online ones.
  5. In some cases, you can paraphrase the sentences in the original document. But don't forget to write a reference.
  6. You must always insist on honesty. Furthermore, you have to always remember that there should be a new added value.
  7. You must always insist on doing real research, not "Wikipedia" research.
  8. Do not put any of your research work anywhere until it is published and tagged with your name. Please wait until the paper is accepted and then published in that journal. Then, upload that research item on any platform you wish.
  9. Despite that offline ones are rare and if you are insisting to use anti-plagiarism software, offline checker programs are safer than online ones.
  10. In my opinion, most of the free-software-checkers for plagiarism don't work effectively. Unfortunately, you have to pay for the sake of getting good results.
  11. Try to develop your own style for the text writing.
  12. Try to read as much scientific literature as possible, especially in your own research field area.
  13. A reminder for all respected researchers: In order to maintain research integrity, plagiarism (الاستلال) has to be given up. However, many people do not know whether they are committing plagiarism intentionally or unintentionally.
Finally, believe me, or not: If you make one plagiarizing, you may solve one problem and fall into many others where some of which may be described as a knockout. Again and again, please always remember that if there were accusations of plagiarism, it is not well for any researcher's reputation, in any meaning.
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Looking for answers of self citation
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Self-citation may be necessary in many cases to complete the research study according to the world's progress. There may be a room for self-citation - but it is a good practice to limit the practice when possible.Therefore, self-citation is a sensitive issue.
On the other hand, "Citation Farms", also known as "Citation Cartels", consist of authors who routinely and enormously self-cite or cite each other for the purpose of raising their citation counters and, in turn, promoting the impact of their publications.
Let me show you this paragraph:
"Self citation. Researchers may need to cite their previously published works in order to communicate an idea effectively in their present manuscript. While IGI Global encourages the use of self citations in these cases, it is important that self-cited works do not account for, at most, 50% of the total references in the manuscript."
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Communication is the key-word for both COVID causes and effects. Consequently, "life will not be the same" for the Social Sciences too. Researchers will soon want to develop a broader vision and new perspectives. This question is an invitation to brainstorm the future of the social paradigm.
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How to establish new theories in the field of digital communication ?
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Doing research in multilingual contexts can be challenging, as many of you know. I do social science research in Spain, and occasionally come across terms that lack a direct translation between Spanish & English.
A real head-breaker is 'grassroot (initiatives)'. Does anyone have a good translation for this? I'm looking for a term that makes sense for the general public (as I work together with local communities), and is ideally also used in Spanish scientific literature.
Thanks!
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All due respect to you for your excellent Scientific Research Work, very remarkable and with good scheduled.
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The question refers to research in social sciences, the time between measurements would be one month.
I have been looking for either a formula, or an example in literature to base my estimate on.
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One month is a fairly short time. You shouldn't loose any, if you do it is statististically insignificant.
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In the health science, the Hierarchy of evidence is very clear, and distinguish between the all types of evidence, is a sistematic process, with steps and methodologies that clarify the process. But, some times is necessary use evidence from another souerces like, social sciences, economics, education, etc. and in that cases, the quality of evidence is of importance to be used and how evaluated this is blurred , so i would know how this can be evaluated and how is it ranked
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Cecilia Veas In the social sciences we do not have a so called 'hierarchy' of evidence. What we do have is a range of both quantitative and qualitative methods, each of which serves a purpose. Often several methods are used in order to raise validity. This is called 'triangulation'. There are many excellent social science studies that have used triangulation, by very respected academics. we regard different research methods as horses for courses, that is, each has a value and it depends on the nature of the research topic as to which method or methods are used. So mostly all are of equal value, although there is some dispute among academics as to whether quantitative data is superior to qualitative data.
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When I look at the comments for interesting-looking articles, I hope to see remarks that address aspects of the contents of the articles, that aid understanding, or make useful suggestions. Instead I typically find scores of mere "congratulations" and no further information. This is completely useless and irritating, and what few informative comments there might be are buried and hidden in the mass of useless comments.
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Dear Prof. Karl Pfeifer ,
I agree with your point, though I understand people reluctance to make any unprofessional statements, judgements, or allegations as an instinctive healthy prudence. If people like the study but afraid to say anything to the substance of the study, they can Recommend or Follow the article without any related comments.
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The publication of Abraham Moles' "Sociodynamique de la Culture" in 1967 sparked new reflections on the relationship between the person, society and the modes of mass communication. Moles highlighted the intense relationship between the individual, his culture and the dynamics that develop around it. His approach to sociodynamic theory applied to message transfer reminded us about the dynamic and social processes that interfere with how a message is sent, interpreted, registered and shared. Although his work focused on radio and television, we could apply the same principles (with some breadth) to digital media. Nevertheless, how could we speak of a new Sociodynamique de la Culture in the current context? What new reflections can we draw from Moles's sociodynamic theory?
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Dynamic social theory talks about the symbolic interaction between the individual, society and the means of communication because culture is an organic moving object that influences the personality of the individual according to the social environment in which he lives through the climate and the cultural space driven by information and communication technology, so the individual is forced to interact with this dynamic and move with its wheel, Rala will remain backward.
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Hi all readers
If you know of any research groups, discussion groups, or conference resources in agent based modeling for social sciences / computational social sciences, please advise
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My research is about the evaluation of curriculum (one subject of social sciences) at higher secondary level by using the CIPP model. I developed Research questions based on CIPP model.
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Mainly it depends on the objectives of your evaluation, but if you use JAP test, in my opinion it will very beneficial for you.
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I would be interested in what you see as the advantages and disadvantages of mixed-methods research in the social sciences. Do you do research with a mixture or combination of e.g. qualitative and quantitative research? Do you combine different quantitative or qualitative methods?
What challenges do you face (e.g., sampling, implementation, scope) and where do you see the limitations of the combination?
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I have developed and validated a social sciences scale and now think it would be useful to band total scores into those who are 'dissatisfied', 'neither satisfied nor dissatisfied' and 'satisfied' for further statistical analysis (these correspond with the average Likert scale scoring that has been used in the scale). I am wondering would this undermine the factor structure that was used to create the scale, and whether doing so would be inadvisable? Many thanks for any help that you can offer.
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I'm not sure why you would want to do this. You would loose information about individual differences and increase measurement error. This could lead to bias in, for example, estimates of correlations of the scale scores with other variables. Unless you have very specific reasons for grouping the scores, I would advise against it.
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Although ethnomethodology presents some characteristics close to symbolic interactionism, it would be a misunderstanding to ignore the distinctions that separate both approaches. In this sense, what aspects of ethnomethodology and symbolic interactionism can be compared and what differences can be drawn between them?
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The term Symbolic Interactionism was developed by Hebert Blumer, a student of George Herbet Mead, who was a well-known pragmatist philosopher. As a pragmatist, Mead did not follow conventional philosophy of knowledge based on ontology and epistemology. Instead, he focused on action, as in his book, "The Act."
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Distinguished colleagues,
I need your professional opinion for my ongoing research. Any input, support, publication links or comments will be highly appreciated!
Thank you in advance!
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Dr. Vardan Atoyan
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I mainly use surveys to collect data from people for my projects. I have been using SurveyMonkey to collect e-surveys and also enter 'field-paper' surveys, It is very good as I have both the practicalities of entering data with minimum or no errors (like using Access-Forms) and also share the survey online to target other people I may not capture on my 'field' data collections.
I am interested on the capabilities of epicollect5, and it has very useful things like, again create a form, being able to use it on-line or off-line and share for other people to collect. However, the type of questions you can create are limited and they don't adjust well to social surveys. Well, of course Epicollect5 is/was thought for other disciplines.
So, anyone knows of an alternative -FREE, as epicollect- for social science that would allow questions like matrixes, likert scales, rankings, multiple open-text in same question, or even adding a photo for people to rate or rank?
Thanks everyone for your opinion on this....
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Memory as a social and cognitive sense of the past in the present reveals that the established paradigm of knowledge of the past interferes in the experience of the present (Connerton, 1989; Le Goff, 1977). The sense or meaning of the past in the present, particularly through the narratives of memory (recollections) expose a dichotomous and constant dynamic between remembering and forgetting. In this sense, can we understand memory as a social and cognitive dynamic in permanent sociodynamic movement?
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Cognitive effort as a dynamical process occurring atop a complex network.
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Dear Experts,
Although I have started to learn some techniques related to meta-analysis article, I am not sure what are the key principles or tips about choosing topics. I humbly invite experts to discuss topics about meta-analysis in social science. What are the principles researchers should know before start writing? What are the tips in choosing topic (how to choose a meaningful topic that can make contribution)? What is the potential of meta-analysis in future scholarship development and theoretical contribution?
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Dear Siwei Sun,
Take a look at some auxiliary info:
How do you tell if a paper is a meta-analysis?
Within the Publication Type search box, scroll down until you see Meta-Analysis. High light Meta-Analysis by clicking on it, and then continue scrolling until you see “Systematic Review.” Hold down the “Ctrl” key on a PC, or the "Command" key on a Mac and click “Systematic Review”.
How many studies do you need for a meta-analysis?
two studies
Finally, the authors take up the question "How many studies do you need to do a meta-analysis?" and show that, given the need for a conclusion, the answer is "two studies," because all other synthesis techniques are less transparent and/or are less likely to be valid.
What data do I need for a meta-analysis?
The two summary statistics commonly used for meta-analysis of continuous data are the mean difference (MD) and the standardized mean difference (SMD). Other options are available, such as the ratio of means.
When would researchers choose to conduct a meta-analysis?
If we are working with a fixed-effect model, then it makes sense to perform a meta- analysis as soon as we have two studies, since a summary based on two or more studies yields a more precise estimate of the true effect than either study alone.
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Is Bartlett's test alone enough for hypothesis testing? or Chi square has to be tested along with in a dissertation for a Ph.D study in the field or social science?
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For exploratory factor analysis?
Bartlett’s test will tell you whether your data fit for factor analysis or not?
And the chi-square test will tell you if there is a sufficient quantity of factors extracted to explain the variance observed in the data.
I think you will require both.
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In case study research
How to obtain multiple sources of evidence in the case of startups with no physical location and operating online and The data sources that the researcher can find It varies between the personal interview as a primary source, as well as their websites and the startups' accounts on social media (Twitter). As a result, the researcher will face a scarcity of multiple data sources that cover all study factors, except the interview, which will be almost the main source in this situation.
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If you are doing a multiple case comparison, I like Robert Yin's book on this kind of research (Case Study Research: Design and Methods).
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What are the most influential ontologies or taxonomies in the behavioral/social sciences? How did they make a difference? What does it mean to be an influential ontology or taxonomy? Citations? Use? Saved lives?
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Oh now I see. Do you mean taxonomies of phenomena in psychology? Of course now I understand that my answer is for the philosophical part and not so much for categories that are used in research on general psychological processes.
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Over the last few months, I have come across several posts on social media where scientists/researchers even Universities are flaunting their ranking as per AD Scientific Index https://www.adscientificindex.com/.
When I clicked on the website, I was surprised to discover that they are charging a fee (~24-30 USD) to add the information of an individual researcher.
So I started wondering if it's another scam of ‘predatory’ rankings.
What's your opinion in this regard?
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Mixed-methods researchers promote pragmatism as a paradigm by suggesting that it is directly linked to the needs of mixed-methods research. Scholars maintain that pragmatism provides a philosophical foundation for social science research, in general, and mixed-methods research, in particular (Morgan 2014a).
Many researchers still believe that mixed methodology should be done separately.
What is the take on the pragmatic approach where mixed methods adopt the use of both methods using one instrument/tool to collect data at the same time? This will either be QUANT+qual or QUAL+quant.
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Actually, I do not know that mixed-method has limitations. Thank you for the useful RG link.
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I am particularly interested in resources on/best ways to learn datasets/numeric evidence's interpretation and correlations between variables. Thank you!
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Try Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics by Neil Salkind & Bruce Frey. It's a great intro to statistics that I've used to help quite a few students struggling in statistics.
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Hello! I'm interested in building or joining existing research collaborations, but the channel our research office directs us to (researchconnect) seems better suited for hard sciences. Are there similar platforms or outlets for social sciences?
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Dear Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa,
In my opinion, this science portal, the Research Gate web platform, is also an excellent platform for the development of scientific cooperation in the field of social sciences. The Research Gate portal is an internet platform that facilitates the development of scientific cooperation on a local, regional, as well as international and global scale. The possibilities of developing cooperation through the RG portal concern various fields of science and scientific disciplines, including various research topics developed within the social sciences. I invite you to research cooperation.
Best regards,
Dariusz
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Of course i know it depends on the field and data i conducting the research in, and some fields like pharmacy or biology require very strict criteria.
But what i wonder is social science. I made a regression model to analyze the activity performed in urban space recently, which contains some variables whose p-value of t-test exceed 0.05 and rather close to 0.1. In this case can i apply relatively flexible criteria, 0.1 to each value?
And even if it's possible, applying criteria such as 0.15 won't be accepted, isn't it? Actually, several variables whose p-values are 0.1x are contained in the model
I would be very appreciate if you answer to my question and give a good reference regard to it.
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Min Soek Won -
You can research "graphical residual analysis" on the internet. It is a scatterplot technique that I think you can learn fairly quickly. Then, "cross-validation" just means looking to see if your model too closely just fits that one sample. There are various techniques for that. If you can split your sample into two smaller samples, you could see if graphical residual analyses on the separate samples, so separate scatterplots, tell you the same model fits well for both. (More data would be helpful.) That would be one form of cross-validation.
Anyway, you could start by just researching "graphical residual analysis."
Best wishes - Jim
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Dear Colleages
Invitation to write theoretical or empirical articles for complexity forum on resilience from any perspective.
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Hello!
I have found my sample size based on the population of the city by using online sample size calculators like Survey Monkey. However, the number I get is about 200-300 and I am wondering is this the number of surveys I should distribute, or should I multiply this number by a number (if yes, what number?) or something to account for non-respondant?
I have heard a 5-10% response rate is common, and 10% of 300 is not much... so I am a bit confused about how to proceed.