Social Science Space

Drawing on a dataset covering over a million user comments about their use of US National Academies consensus study reports, Ameet Doshi, Diana Hicks, Matteo Zullo and Omar I. Asensio find widespread use of open research in the public sphere.

In this first response to Ziyad Marar’s thought piece “On Measuring Social Science Impact,” professor Sue Fletcher-Watson, who represents a field where the direct purpose is to improve the quality of life for a group of individuals, shares why current metrics fall short and what we can do about it.

The following essay by Ziyad Marar is adapted from “On Measuring Social Science Impact,” published in the journal Organization Studies. To […]

How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted science research itself, but also how Americans view science in their daily lives? The […]

the authors’ research finds that, far from being immune to the conditions they treat in others, psychologists grapple with mental health difficulties or illnesses just as much as their patients do.

Using a dataset of journals from the field of business, management, and accounting research,  Julián D. Cortés explores how the title and aims and purposes varies across journal, prestige, geography and publication model.

Starting on Jan. 25, 2023, many of the 2,500 institutions and 300,000 researchers that the U.S. National Institutes of Health supports will need to provide a formal, detailed plan for publicly sharing the data generated by their research.

Arik Burakovsky, an expert on relations between the U.S. and Russia, shines light on the future of cooperation between Russia and the West in the realm of higher education.

We live in the information age. So where are all the answers? A new data science consortium led by NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics wants to reveal the answers and evidence hidden in a sea of federally compartmentalized data.

According to NIST’s Reva Schwartz, bias manifests itself not only in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train them, but also in the societal context in which AI systems are used. 

Good social science research has ultimate social relevance. In Nigeria, however, the authors’ study shows that research evidence and policies are disconnected.

The U.S. National Science Foundation last week announced it would create a new directorate focused on Technology, Innovation and Partnerships.