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.

Tweets from the Journal of Politics and American Sociology Review shed light on editorial workload; and: how peer-reviewers may react if they find your pre-print.

Which research papers received much attention across the social sciences in the week 22-28 July 2019 ("trending papers"), and which did not, despite sounding interesting ("neglected papers")? We offer a brief compilation.