Much attentmn has been gwen to the effects of the recession on the financmg of the socml security program m the Umted States and abroad, where smnlar economm condltlons have arisen This report concentrates on the repercussions m France Fmanclal problems for the soclal security systems of many countries have been created by the combmatlon of mflahon and recession m the 1970’s Benefits, Indexed u...

Two experiments tested the hypothesis that alcohol increases race-biased responding via impairment of self-regulatory cognitive control. Participants consumed either a placebo or alcohol and then made speeded responses to stereotypic trait words presented after White and Black face primes while behavioral and event-related brain potential (ERP) data were recorded. Alcohol did not affect stereot...

This study examines the longitudinal trend of systemness in networked research relations in South Korea using a triple-helix (TH) indicator of university-industry-government (UIG) relations. The data were harvested from the Science Citation Index (SCI) and its counterparts in the social sciences (SSCI) and the arts and humanities (A&HCI). The total number of Korean SCI publications has grown ra...

This study examines the social network of scholars in the field of Communication by using author co-citation data. A matrix containing the number of co-cited documents between pairs of authors is created for social network analysis of scholars who are on the editorial board of Journal of Communication, and the networked map of the scholars is used to visualize the knowledge structure of the fie...

This fall ISI’@ is publishing the 1956-1965 Social Sciences Citation hdex”. The new cumulation provides unique access to the soeiat sciencesliterature of a crucial decade, Analysisof current research fronts demonstrates how core literature of earlier decades has continuing and lasting relevance for present and future research. Six papers from the behavioral sciences are reviewed, including Cita...

This literature review assesses indicators derived from social media sources, including both general and academic sites. Such indicators have been termed altmetrics, influmetrics, social media metrics, or a type of webometric, and have recently been commercialised by a number of companies and employed by some publishers and university administrators. The social media metrics analysed here deriv...

Introduction The Actor Network represents heterogeneous entities as actants (Callon et al., 1983; 1986). Although computer programs for the visualization of social networks increasingly allow us to represent heterogeneity in a network using different shapes and colors for the visualization, hitherto this possibility has scarcely been exploited (Mogoutov et al., 2008). In this contribution to th...