Social innovation has been contextualized as a new way of resolving deeply entrenched development issues. The identification and resolution of social needs is said to be the driving force of social innovation. With features such as sustainability and scalability, social innovation has the potential to change the way we perceive and engage with development in the future. This research takes a cr...

The relationship between industrial and scientific knowledge and systems methodologies is discussed in this paper. As the measure of the former on the macro level, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is assumed to be the consequence of systems’ Research and Development (R&D), which is estimated indirectly by the number of articles published in academic journals in the last 40 years. It is assumed that...

This editorial celebrates the launch of BMC Psychology [1], the newest addition to the BMC series [2] journal group. BMC Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, social, evolutionary and educational psychology, as well as personality and in...

social capital is a new concept that’s been important in management literature in recent years. the importance of this concept has led to increase the researchers’ trends to develop models and diagnose new indexes. the main object of this research is exploring and designing a model to achieve foregoing goal. social capital development in universities and higher education centers as fundamental ...

introduction: purchasing scientific journals take a large amount of university library budget. so choosing journals with a scientific validity that response to universities needs is so important. this article aims to have a survey on usage rate of isfahan university of medical sciences users on public, environmental and occupational health journals to confirm core journals via bradford scatteri...

Method/Design and Sample: Our data covers all issues of the Journal of Consumer Psychology and the Journal of Consumer Research to December 2014, totaling 2,698 articles with 5,951 author credits. We describe the data and community characteristics. We advance the literature by using modern social network analysis techniques to map a social network and provide social network metrics across two j...