How many papers were published across the social sciences in September 2019? Which journals were most active, and which papers were trending in each discipline?

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.

How many papers were published across the social sciences in August 2019? Which journals were most active, and which papers were trending in each discipline?

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.

This week's research highlights include a newly discovered John Locke manuscript; how tabloid media depicted Donald Trump in the 1980s and the 1990s; why the lighthouse should not serve as the quintessential example of a public good; and a new quantitative assessment of 1944-45 famines in Vietnam and Java.

A major political science theory's racist foundations; making grad students replicate quantitative papers; and how blockchain technologies create "smart contracts".

A weekly briefing of trending (and less trending) papers across the social sciences, 29 July - 4 August 2019.