本研究では2006~2015年に日本の学協会誌に掲載された論文1,080,840本を対象に,日英の主 要なオルトメトリクス計測サービスから得たデータに基づき,オルトメトリクスの付与状況を分析した結 果について報告する.日本の学協会誌掲載論文のうち,ソーシャルメディアからの言及があるものは 約1~2%とごくわずかであった.分野,言語,出版年とオルトメトリクスの関係については用いるデー タ源により異なる傾向があるが,人文社会系の論文でソーシャルメディアからの言及が多いことは共 通している.また,同一の論文を対象とした場合でも,データ源によって収集されているソーシャルメ ディア上の言及の範囲は異なっていた. This study clarifies the availability of altmetrics for 1,080,840 articles published in Japa...

This Special Issue of the Journal of Strategic Security (JSS) presents the results of a series of case studies of prior efforts by VNSAs to engage in complex engineering tasks, in the hope of informing strategic assessments of the threat of VNSA exploitation of emerging technologies. One particular concern in international security lies at the nexus of violent non-state actors (VNSAs) and sophi...

G ary King, a professor of social science at Harvard University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, fashions tools that harness the power of statistics, machine learning, and informatics to make sense of the numbers that matter to society. From evaluating the efficacy of a Mexican health policy reform to predicting the fate of the US Social Security trust fund, King’s sophisticate...

Journals in the social sciences typically require manuscripts to be formatted according to the American Psychological Association’s Publication Manual, which is now in its 6th Edition. The apa6 class is an update of the popular apa class (often referred to as “apa.cls”), bringing it into compliance with 6th Edition requirements and adding a few new features. This article describes the major fea...

this study represents scientific production of iran in medical sciences field at recent years, and the correlation between scientific productions with the number of indexed journals.data extracted from scopus database between years 2000 and 2011, and iran's performance measured in terms of different scientometrics indexes including self-citations, percent of cited articles, number of articles w...

One of the most exciting promises of a complex systems perspective for learning and education, well captured in Jacobson and Wilensky’s target article, is to provide a unifying force to bring together increasingly fragmented scientific communities. The day when scientists have time to read broadly across chemistry, biology, physics, and social sciences is long gone. Journals, conferences, and a...