Purpose: to provide a view and analysis of the immediate field of journals which surround a number of key heterodox economics journals. Design/methodology/approach: Using citation data from the Science and Social Science Citation Index, the individual and collective networks of a number of journals in this field are analyzed. Findings: The size and shape of the citation networks of journals can...

We present a unified approach to the design of social index numbers. Our starting point is model that employs an exogenously given partition population into subgroups. Three classes group-dependent measures deprivation are characterized. The three groups nested and, beginning with largest these, we narrow them down by successively adding two additional axioms. This leads parameterized class mem...

The digital divide (DD) refers to the gap between individuals, companies, regions and countries in accessing and using the information and communication technology (ICT). DD research is mainly oriented towards detection of differences in the ICT use among individuals. An important part of DD research refers to the differences in ICT adoption and use among corporations. The goal of this paper is...

This paper explored a new approach regarding social vulnerability to climate change, and measured social vulnerability in three parts: (1) choosing relevant indicators of social vulnerability to climate change; (2) based on the Hazard Vulnerability Similarity Index (HVSI), our method provided a procedure to choose the referenced community objectively; and (3) ranked social vulnerability, exposu...

This study aimed to investigate the relation between mental health and social capital. The method of research was descriptive and correlation. The population consisted of all 400 school students of middle and high schools in Tehran city that were chosen randomly. Social capital was assessed by the DELAVIZ questionnaire that has accepted reliability and validity. Also GHQ questionnaire has been ...

We study the structure of social networks of students by examining the graphs of Facebook “friendships” at five American universities at a single point in time. We investigate each single-institution network’s community structure and employ graphical and quantitative tools, including standardized pair-counting methods, to measure the correlations between the network communities and a set of sel...