Rating of scholarly journals by chairpersons in the social sciences

1983 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Nelson ◽  
A. R. Buss ◽  
M. Katzko
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
The Social

The Scholarly Literature on E-Government

2008 ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Donald Norris ◽  
Benjamin A. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Empirical Content ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

The authors conducted a comprehensive review of articles on the subject of e-government that were published in refereed scholarly journals through the end of 2004 to serve as a baseline for future analysis of this emerging field. They found over 100 e-government articles, but only 57 with empirical content. The authors then examined the articles using 12 analytical categories. They conclude that the scholarship about e-government comes primarily from the United States, and from authors trained in the social sciences. Few e-government articles adequately used the literatures that were available (e.g., IT and government, e-government, or any specialized literatures), and few created or tested theory or hypotheses. Articles employed both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, but many contained conclusions that were not supported by their data or analyses. The authors conclude that e-government research is a young and growing field that has yet to achieve adequate scholarly rigor.

scholarly journals Data policies and data archives as prerequisites of reproducible published research in economics journals

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Vlaeminck
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
German Research Foundation ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Related Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economics Journals ◽  
Published Research

>> See video of presentation (19 min.) In economics - as in many other branches of the social sciences- collaboratively working on data and sharing data is not very common, yet. This is also reflected in the professions’ journals, where policies on data management and data sharing currently exist for a small minority of journals only.I would like to introduce the presentation with some empirical results of a survey, in which economists working for the project EDaWaX (European Data Watch, a project funded by the German Research Foundation) analysed the data sharing behaviour of 488 US and European applied economists. Subsequently we give an overview on data policies of journals in economics and business studies. In the course of the EDaWaX project, the data policies in a sample of more than 300 economics journals have been analysed. The talk suggests guidelines for data policies aiming to foster replication of published research and presents some characteristics of journals equipped with those data policies as well as the status quo in disseminating underlying research data of empirically based articles.Against this analytical background the talk identifies some challenges associated with the current e-infrastructure for providing publication-related research data by journals. The presentation also shows a technical solution for some of these challenges. In particular, the talk presents a pilot application for a publication-related data archive for scholarly journals in the social sciences, which has been developed in the first funding phase of the EDaWaX-project. The aim of this open source tool is to empower editors of scholarly journals to easily manage research data for empirically based articles in their journals. The application mainly targets open research data but is also capable of interlinking data and publications even in the case of confidential or proprietary data.In conclusion the talk outlines the further development of our application and sketches other tasks of the project’s second funding phase.More information on the project is available on www.edawax.de  

Multilingual Scholars’ Experiences in Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 248-272
Author(s):  
Basim Alamri
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
English Language ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Writing For Publication ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Multilingual Scholars

Multilingual scholars in the social sciences and humanities at universities in Saudi Arabia face challenges to publishing in international English-language scholarly journals. This study aims to investigate their attitudes and needs and the obstacles they encounter. It also explores how deans of scientific research respond to scholars’ obstacles and needs. The study takes a mixed-methods approach, with a questionnaire and interviews with faculty and deans at Saudi universities. The faculty members’ interest in conducting research and publishing is lower than their estimation of the importance of these activities. They reported barriers to research and publication, chiefly a lack of funding and a lack of time. They also expressed a need for training in disciplinary writing for publication purposes. Finally, the deans of scientific research described various initiatives at their universities for assisting faculty with research and writing. The study ends with suggestions for what Saudi universities could do to help increase the number of publications by their faculty.

The Scholarly Literature on E-Government

2011 ◽  
pp. 4013-4028
Author(s):  
Donald F. Norris ◽  
Benjamin A. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Empirical Content ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

The authors conducted a comprehensive review of articles on the subject of e-government that were published in refereed scholarly journals through the end of 2004 to serve as a baseline for future analysis of this emerging field. They found over 100 e-government articles, but only 57 with empirical content. The authors then examined the articles using 12 analytical categories. They conclude that the scholarship about e-government comes primarily from the United States, and from authors trained in the social sciences. Few e-government articles adequately used the literatures that were available (e.g., IT and government, e-government, or any specialized literatures), and few created or tested theory or hypotheses. Articles employed both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, but many contained conclusions that were not supported by their data or analyses. The authors conclude that e-government research is a young and growing field that has yet to achieve adequate scholarly rigor.

Editor's Introduction

1994 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
David D. Buck
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scholarly Attention

One of my goals as editor has been to develop cross-regional consideration in the pages of this journal of major issues drawing scholarly attention in both the social sciences and humanities. The most common approach for such projects is to bring groups of scholars together at a conference and then to publish a conference volume. Indeed, JAS has published groups of papers from such conferences, most recently the four articles on vernacular Muslim literature in Asia organized by John Bowen (JAS 52.3 [August 1993]). In a variation on that approach, other academic journals, such as Daedalus, assemble groups of articles around a common theme. Many scholarly journals have some or even all of their issues organized around special topics.

What Can We Learn From Factorial Surveys About Human Behavior?

Methodology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Petzold ◽  
Tobias Wolbring
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
High Level

Abstract. Factorial survey experiments are increasingly used in the social sciences to investigate behavioral intentions. The measurement of self-reported behavioral intentions with factorial survey experiments frequently assumes that the determinants of intended behavior affect actual behavior in a similar way. We critically investigate this fundamental assumption using the misdirected email technique. Student participants of a survey were randomly assigned to a field experiment or a survey experiment. The email informs the recipient about the reception of a scholarship with varying stakes (full-time vs. book) and recipient’s names (German vs. Arabic). In the survey experiment, respondents saw an image of the same email. This validation design ensured a high level of correspondence between units, settings, and treatments across both studies. Results reveal that while the frequencies of self-reported intentions and actual behavior deviate, treatments show similar relative effects. Hence, although further research on this topic is needed, this study suggests that determinants of behavior might be inferred from behavioral intentions measured with survey experiments.

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