scholarly journals New Approaches to Ranking Economics Journals

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda K. Kodrzycki ◽  
Pingkang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Research Productivity ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Applied Microeconomics ◽  
Systematic Effect ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economics Journals ◽  
Ranking Technique ◽  
Broad Interest

AbstractWe develop a flexible, citations- and reference-intensity-adjusted ranking technique that allows a specified set of journals to be evaluated using a range of alternative criteria. We also distinguish between the influence of a journal and that of a journal article, with the latter concept arguably being more relevant for measuring research productivity. The list of top economics journals can (but does not necessarily) change noticeably when one examines citations in the social science and policy literatures, and when one measures citations on a per-article basis. The changes in rankings are due to the broad interest in applied microeconomics and economic development, to differences in citation norms and in the relative importance assigned to theoretical and empirical contributions, and to the lack of a systematic effect of journal size on influence per article. We also find that economics is comparatively self-contained but nevertheless draws knowledge from a range of other disciplines.

Panacea for Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Igor’ Yu. Sundiev ◽  
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Andrey B. Frolov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Anthropic Principle ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Social Event ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Causal Connections ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Period

The article analyzes the causes of an extreme social event in the format of a global pandemic. They are associated with the “re-quantization of reality” — the change of universal attractors of the historical process, which set specific ways of regulating system structures. The old system-forming meaning of the development of society as a Zoopopulation has finally exhausted its regulatory possibilities; the new meaning is just beginning to integrate social elements for the transition to a psychosocial formation. The clash and struggle of old and new causal connections generates causal dissonance, leads to an increase in entropy in social systems, which, in turn, generates an extremum that threatens humanity with self — destruction-an omnicide. The specifics of a possible suicide of humanity is of relative importance: epidemics, earthquakes, asteroid crashes, and other variants of global misery can threaten and increase until a new sense of development dominates the social consciousness. A real pandemic is the best time for a quantum transition from the old regulation to the new: as soon as the new anthropic principle of managing causal connections prevails, the disease will disappear, and civilization will pass to a new period of its development.

scholarly journals Intersectional identifications: Ethnicity and sexuality among diasporic queer women in Belgium

Ethnicities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1025-1043
Author(s):  
Alexander Dhoest
Keyword(s):  
Migration Background ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Queer Women ◽  
Structuring Element ◽  
Intersectionality Theory ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Racial Lines ◽  
Depth Interviews

While research on migration and diasporas tends to be heteronormative, research on sexual minorities tends to ignore migrants and ethnic minorities. The current paper aims to problematize both tendencies by taking a queer perspective on migration and a diasporic perspective on sexuality. As part of a larger project on diasporic LGBTQs living in Belgium, this paper discusses the social positions and identifications of six non-heterosexual women with a migration background, as narrated in individual in-depth interviews. Drawing on intersectionality theory, the relative importance and mutual interplay between their sexual and ethno-cultural identifications are analysed. This analysis discloses the irreducible individuality of each narrative, where the balance and interaction between ethno-cultural and sexual identifications is part of an intricate interplay of social positions and contexts. The participants’ migration background is a key structuring element, leading to a combination of geographic and/or social distance from their family and ethno-cultural community in which religious, family and gender norms lead to a range of expectations and pressures. Sexual identifications tend to be more salient when they are strongly rejected, in which case they lead to more social and often also geographic distancing. This is further modulated by race, as non-white participants tend to identify more strongly along racial lines because they are continuously reminded of their otherness.

Engineering registers in the 21st century

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheena Gardner ◽  
Xiaoyu Xu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Open Access ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Word Frequencies

Abstract Following an exploration of engineering programmes in higher education, and a review of literature on engineering registers, genres and disciplines, this paper asks if there is a register for engineering. Word frequencies, n-grams and frequent n-grams in context were analysed in a 7.3 million word corpus created from four sections (Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results & Discussion, Conclusion) of over 1000 articles in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering. From the perspective of systemic functional linguistics, this reveals how engineering is construed through language that reflects the social context of high impact, open access, multi-modal, 21st century, international journal article publication, with multiple author roles, and prescribed genres, where reviewers focus on problem solving and facts, rather than persuasive claims.

Social Amplification of Risk in Health and Risk Messaging

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia A. Strekalova ◽  
Janice L. Krieger
Keyword(s):  
Relative Importance ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Intergroup Dynamics ◽  
Social Amplification Of Risk ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information Consumers ◽  
Social Amplification ◽  
Risk Assessment And Management

Risk is a social construction, and its understanding by information consumers is shaped through interaction with messages, opinions, shared and learned experiences, and interpretations of the characteristics of risk. Social actors and information flows can provide heuristic cues about risks, their relative importance and unimportance, and the attention that an information consumer ought to pay to a particular risk. Social cues can also accentuate particular characteristics of risk, further amplifying or attenuating attention to it and shaping behaviors. This, in turn, can generate secondary and tertiary effects resultant from the public’s reaction to risk. The process of social amplification of risk, therefore, has structural components that include the social elements that get enacted in the process of the translation of risk information. Risk amplification is also affected by message factors, which can dramatize information, increase attention and uncertainty, and generate shared signals and symbols. And finally, social amplification of risks results in reactions that can shape pathways for risk assessment and management, frame views, fuel intergroup dynamics in response to risk, contribute to the accumulation of experiential knowledge and signals of different risk situations, and label and stigmatize some groups or outcomes as undesirable.

George Gunton: Pioneer Spokesman for a Labor-Big Business Entente

1957 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Blicksilver
Keyword(s):  
Organized Labor ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Big Business ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Wide Acceptance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contradictory Evidence ◽  
No Man's Land

The story of George Gunton is that of an astonishingly accurate economic prophet whose viewpoints have found wide acceptance a half-century after they were enunciated. Gunton is shown in this article not as a paid defender of big business but as an apostle of compromise, standing in the No Man's Land of a vast battleground. With equal fervor Gunton declared, “It is our industries that make us great,” but that laborers' wages were “as elastic as human wants … capable of as much expansion as the social character of man.” His numerous commentaries are a lucid clue to the relative importance of contemporary issues, and those commentaries are enhanced by Gunton's instinctive sense of history. Out of the confusion of contradictory evidence recorded at the Chicago Conference on Trusts, before the Industrial Commission, and elsewhere on the business and political stage Gunton framed his thesis of the essential interdependence of big business and organized labor. His convictions were, in total, unique, and his judgment and reconciliation of conflicting viewpoints have meaning and utility today.

scholarly journals Pot, kettle: Nonliteral titles aren’t (natural) science

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1638-1652
Author(s):  
Mike Thelwall
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Poetic License ◽  
Formal Science

Researchers may be tempted to attract attention through poetic titles for their publications, but would this be mistaken in some fields? Although poetic titles are known to be common in medicine, it is not clear whether the practice is widespread elsewhere. This article investigates the prevalence of poetic expressions in journal article titles from 1996–2019 in 3.3 million articles from all 27 Scopus broad fields. Expressions were identified by manually checking all phrases with at least five words that occurred at least 25 times, finding 149 stock phrases, idioms, sayings, literary allusions, film names, and song titles or lyrics. The expressions found are most common in the social sciences and the humanities. They are also relatively common in medicine, but almost absent from engineering and the natural and formal sciences. The differences may reflect the less hierarchical and more varied nature of the social sciences and humanities, where interesting titles may attract an audience. In engineering, natural science, and formal science fields, authors should take extra care with poetic expressions in case their choice is judged inappropriate. This includes interdisciplinary research overlapping these areas. Conversely, reviewers of interdisciplinary research involving the social sciences should be more tolerant of poetic license.

scholarly journals Towards proper evaluation of book publishing in the social sciences

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnar Sivertsen ◽  
Elea Giménez-Toledo ◽  
Nataša Jermen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
Publication Patterns ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Publishing

Books are important in the social sciences. Monographs and edited books allow for presenting original research based on methodologies or forms of collaboration that the format of the journal article does not serve as appropriately. Books are also used to engage directly with society. This chapter first introduces book publishing in the social sciences as a diversity of genres, purposes, and audiences. We then limit the scope to peer-reviewed scholarly book publishing and describe how publication patterns differ among the disciplines of the social sciences in the dimensions of books versus journal articles and national versus international publishing. Then we focus on the structure of the scholarly book publishing market with particular attention to developments towards open access publishing. The chapter ends with our suggestions for principles that can guide proper evaluation of book publishing in the social sciences.

The immune self, hygiene and performative virtue in general public narratives on antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance

2021 ◽  
pp. 136345932110468
Author(s):  
Mark DM Davis ◽  
Davina Lohm ◽  
Paul Flowers ◽  
Andrea Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Health Messages ◽  
Antibiotics Use ◽  
Moral Dimensions

This paper employs an assemblage lens to generate analyses of general public narratives on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Global efforts to reduce AMR include communications aiming to promote general public awareness, provide knowledge, encourage careful antibiotics use, and discourage demands for them. These efforts are somewhat compromised by the assumptions they make of individual lack of knowledge and motivation and the manner in which the AMR problem is framed in isolation from the biological, social and economic structures that produce it. Conceptualising AMR as an effect of antimicrobial assemblages of which publics are but one part, we analysed interviews with the general public on the lived experience of infections, antibiotic treatments and AMR. Far from science and policy discourse on AMR, these narratives showed antibiotics to be partly solutions to the social and biomedical challenges of infection, framed by self-defensive immunity and hygiene, the affective benefits of ‘immune boosting’, and the imperative to sustain the moral standing of the healthy citizen. Failing public awareness and action on AMR can be attributed to public health messages that overlook the social, affective and moral dimensions of infection care and separate AMR from its socio-economic drivers.

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