Monthly Report | August 2019 in the Social Sciences

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?

In total, 3076 papers were published in 458 social science journals throughout August 2019. Click here to see the top trending papers across all categories from August 2019.

Political Science

In August 2019, 136 Political Science journals published 900 papers.

The most active journals were:

Perspectives on Politics (117 papers)
Marine Policy (41 papers)
Journal of Politics (34 papers)
Globalizations (30 papers)
International Studies Quarterly (23 papers)
World Economy (20 papers)
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies (18 papers)

The top trending papers were the following (based on Altmetric Attention Scores 14 days after the papers' publications):

Economic Downturns and Hardline Public Opinion

Social Science Quarterly | Political Science Sociology 2019-08-27

Was there a ‘Youthquake’ in the 2017 general election?

Electoral Studies | Political Science 2019-08-20

It’s Not the Media, Stupid

Political Quarterly | Political Science 2019-08-30

Is securitization theory racist? Civilizationism, methodological whiteness, and antiblack thought in the Copenhagen School

Security Dialogue | Political Science 2019-08-07

What Isn't a Norm? Redefining the Conceptual Boundaries of “Norms” in the Human Rights Literature

International Studies Review | Political Science 2019-08-22

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Sociology

In August 2019, 98 Sociology journals published 538 papers.

The most active journals were:

The top trending papers were the following (based on Altmetric Attention Scores 14 days after the papers' publications):

Economic Downturns and Hardline Public Opinion

Social Science Quarterly | Political Science Sociology 2019-08-27

Spectral technologies, sonic motility, and the paranormal in Chile

Ethnography | Sociology 2019-08-30

Doing Black Christianity: Reframing Black Church scholarship

Sociology Compass | Sociology 2019-08-23

The disinformation landscape and the lockdown of social platforms

Information, Communication & Society | Sociology Communication 2019-08-29

“When We Talk about Gender We Talk about Sex”: (A)sexuality and (A)gendered Subjectivities

Gender & Society | Sociology 2019-08-14

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Law

In August 2019, 49 Law journals published 172 papers.

The most active journals were:

Journal of Law and Society (11 papers)
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (10 papers)
Modern Law Review (9 papers)
Psychology, Crime & Law (7 papers)
Law & Society Review (7 papers)
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (7 papers)
International Insolvency Review (6 papers)

The top trending papers were the following (based on Altmetric Attention Scores 14 days after the papers' publications):

CRISPR’d babies: human germline genome editing in the ‘He Jiankui affair’*

Journal of Law and the Biosciences | Law 2019-08-15

Criminogenic or criminalized? Testing an assumption for expanding criminogenic risk assessment.

Law and Human Behavior | Law 2019-08-22

Constrained Waiver of Trial Rights? Incentives to Plead Guilty and the Right to a Fair Trial

Journal of Law and Society | Sociology Law 2019-08-19

Big Data Governance Needs More Collective Responsibility: The Role of Harm Mitigation in the Governance of Data Use in Medicine and Beyond

Medical Law Review | Law 2019-08-04

Back at the kitchen table: Reflections on decolonising and internationalising with the Global South socio-legal writing workshops

Feminist Legal Studies | Law 2019-08-01

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Geography

In August 2019, 59 Geography journals published 408 papers.

The most active journals were:

Geoforum (19 papers)
Global Environmental Change (16 papers)
Annals of the American Association of Geographers (16 papers)
Emotion, Space and Society (16 papers)
Landscape and Urban Planning (16 papers)
Gender, Place & Culture (15 papers)
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (15 papers)

The top trending papers were the following (based on Altmetric Attention Scores 14 days after the papers' publications):

Settlement percolation: A study of building connectivity and poles of inaccessibility

Landscape and Urban Planning | Geography 2019-08-20

The role of global dietary transitions for safeguarding biodiversity

Global Environmental Change | Geography 2019-08-09

Airbnb, buy-to-let investment and tourism-driven displacement: A case study in Lisbon

Environment and Planning A | Geography 2019-08-20

Priming critical thinking: Simple interventions limit the influence of fake news about climate change on Facebook

Global Environmental Change | Geography 2019-08-28

Cycle accessibility and level of traffic stress: A case study of Toronto

Journal of Transport Geography | Geography 2019-08-30

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History

In August 2019, 48 History journals published 552 papers.

The most active journals were:

Journal of American History (155 papers)
English Historical Review (52 papers)
Journal of Modern History (45 papers)
Canadian Historical Review (29 papers)
Journal of African History (27 papers)
Itinerario (24 papers)
Environmental History (19 papers)

The top trending papers were the following (based on Altmetric Attention Scores 14 days after the papers' publications):

John Locke And The Toleration Of Catholics: A New Manuscript

Historical Journal | History 2019-08-15

Financing Dispossession: Stocks, Bonds, and the Deportation of Native Peoples in the Antebellum United States

Journal of American History | History 2019-08-21

Chinese Students in Australia: Generators of Cosmopolitanism, Evidence of Economic Necessity or Agents of Political Influence?

Journal of Australian Studies | History Area Studies 2019-08-16

An Emerging Modern World, 1750–1870

Journal of American History | History 2019-08-21

Does international recognition matter? Support for unilateral secession in Catalonia and Scotland

Nations and Nationalism | Political Science Sociology History 2019-08-19

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Area Studies

In August 2019, 42 Area Studies journals published 336 papers.

The most active journals were:

Slavic Review (78 papers)
Journal of Asian Studies (35 papers)
International Journal of Middle East Studies (20 papers)
Journal of Japanese Studies (19 papers)
Latin American Politics and Society (15 papers)
Modern Asian Studies (13 papers)
Asian Journal of Social Science (11 papers)

The top trending papers were the following (based on Altmetric Attention Scores 14 days after the papers' publications):

Crazy Rich Thais: Thailand’s Capitalist Class, 1980–2019

Journal of Contemporary Asia | Area Studies 2019-08-20

Chinese Students in Australia: Generators of Cosmopolitanism, Evidence of Economic Necessity or Agents of Political Influence?

Journal of Australian Studies | History Area Studies 2019-08-16

A Price for Democracy? Religious Legislation and Religious Discrimination in Post-Soeharto Indonesia

Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies | Area Studies 2019-08-30

Examining Public Concern about Global Warming and Climate Change in China

China Quarterly | Area Studies 2019-08-08

Love the Tree, Love the Branch: Beijing's Friendship with Lee Kuan Yew, 1954–1965

China Quarterly | Area Studies 2019-08-09

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Communication

In August 2019, 70 Communication journals published 400 papers.

The most active journals were:

Journalism Practice (30 papers)
Health Communication (21 papers)
Journalism (17 papers)
Discourse Studies (16 papers)
Media, Culture & Society (15 papers)
Discourse, Context & Media (13 papers)
New Media & Society (12 papers)

The top trending papers were the following (based on Altmetric Attention Scores 14 days after the papers' publications):

Disclaiming responsibility: How platforms deadlocked the Federal Election Commission's efforts to regulate digital political advertising

Telecommunications Policy | Communication 2019-08-21

Quantifying the feminine self(ie): Gender display and social media feedback in young women’s Instagram selfies

New Media & Society | Communication 2019-08-27

The Reception of Fake News: The Interpretations and Practices That Shape the Consumption of Perceived Misinformation

Digital Journalism | Communication 2019-08-23

Hitting a Nerve: Populist News Articles Lead to More Frequent and More Populist Reader Comments

Political Communication | Political Science Communication 2019-08-16

The disinformation landscape and the lockdown of social platforms

Information, Communication & Society | Sociology Communication 2019-08-29

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