In total, 3.074 papers were published in 486 social science journals throughout December 2019.

In total, 3.255 papers were published in 490 social science journals throughout November 2019.

In total, 3.188 papers were published in 480 social science journals throughout October 2019.

In total, 2.824 papers were published in 466 social science journals throughout September 2019.

In total, 3.076 papers were published in 458 social science journals throughout August 2019.

The peer-review registration platform Publons could potentially generate freely available, machine-readable journal-level information as regards the number of submissions, acceptance and rejection rates, turnaround times, number of revisions, and the demographic background of authors, editors and referees: A modest vision for Peer Review Week 2019.

Publishers of academic papers can transform bibliographic references into machine-readable metadata. Such “Open Citations” can, for instance, indicate interlinkages between journals. However, so far only 59% of all journals tracked at OOIR have made their citation data freely accessible.

How sleep affects ideologies; what big data from a cycling monitoring app tells us; the legal risks behind the use of Machine Learning in predicting psychoses; and a new analysis of the wealthiest Thai families. – Trending social science research from 19 to 25 August 2019.