Social Sciences - Trends
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Behavioural social choice: a status report.

25 Mar 2009 Behavioural social choice has been proposed as a social choice parallel to seminal developments in other decision sciences, such as behavioural decision theory, behavioural economics, behavioural finance and behavioural game theory. Behavioural ... Read more...

Network analysis in the social sciences.

11 Feb 2009 Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in network research across the physical and social sciences. For social scientists, the theory of networks has been a gold mine, yielding explanations for social phenomena in a wide ... Read more...

"Publish or Perish" as citation metrics used to analyze scientific output in the humanities: International case studies in economics, geography, social sciences, philosophy, and history.

29 Nov 2008 Traditionally, the most commonly used source of bibliometric data is the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge, in particular the (Social) Science Citation Index and the Journal Citation Reports, which provide the yearly Journal Impact Factors. This database ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Social Sciences - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Behavioural social choice: a status report. 25 Mar 2009
• We cannot live by scepticism alone. 3 Mar 2009
• Network analysis in the social sciences. 11 Feb 2009
• Being human: engineering: worldwide ebb. 3 Feb 2009
• Behavioural science: secret signals. 27 Jan 2009
• [Social image of psychiatry] 30 Dec 2008
• "Publish or Perish" as citation metrics used to analyze scientific output in the humanities: International case studies in economics, geography, social sciences, philosophy, and history. 29 Nov 2008
• Welfare for all--or only for the needy? 6 Nov 2008
• Military research: the Pentagon's culture wars. 30 Sep 2008
• Toward transdisciplinary research: historical and contemporary perspectives. 30 Jul 2008
• An overview of Aboriginal health research in the social sciences: current trends and future directions. 30 May 2008
• HIV/AIDS: a long-term research agenda for social sciences. 30 Mar 2008
• Is neuropsychology a psychosocial science? 24 Feb 2008
• Social sciences worst off as projects remain unfunded. 22 Jan 2008
• A review of post-modern management techniques as currently applied to Turkish forestry. 12 Jan 2008
• Conservation: in a rut, we need rut-inspired solutions. 8 Jan 2008
• Retaining the sociology in medical sociology. 2 Sep 2007
• Neuro-gov: neuroscience as catalyst. 21 Aug 2007
• A twenty-first century science. 30 Jan 2007
• Part I: Public health, social science, and the scientific method. 30 Jan 2007

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Technical information about 'Social Sciences'

Definition: Disciplines concerned with the interrelationships of individuals in a social environment including social organizations and institutions. Includes Sociology and Anthropology.

Descriptor UI: D012942

Alternative terms: Social Sciences; Science, Social; Sciences, Social; Social Science;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.879; I01;

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif