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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS | 2019-11-14

Monthly Report | October 2019 in the Social Sciences

Monthly Report, October 2019
How many papers were published across the social sciences in October 2019? Which journals were most active, and which papers were trending in each discipline?
In total, 3188 papers were published in 480 social science journals throughout October 2019.

Political Science

In October 2019, 155 Political Science journals published 1039 papers.

The most active journals were:


 

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

1
Altmetric Attention Score: 768
How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization
American Political Science Review | Political Science 2019-10-31
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 259
Does money have a conservative bias? Estimating the causal impact of Citizens United on state legislative preferences
Public Choice | Political Science 2019-10-09
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 174
Cows, Charcoal, and Cocaine: Al-Shabaab’s Criminal Activities in the Horn of Africa
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism | Political Science 2019-10-17
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 152
Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign
Political Communication | Political Science Communication 2019-10-26
5
Altmetric Attention Score: 151
The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Voter Participation: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
Quarterly Journal of Political Science | Political Science 2019-10-10
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Sociology

In October 2019, 96 Sociology journals published 551 papers.

The most active journals were:


 

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

1
Altmetric Attention Score: 338
Celebrities, air travel, and social norms
Annals of Tourism Research | Sociology 2019-10-19
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 175
Networks of Opposition: A Structural Analysis of U.S. Climate Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989–2015
Sociological Inquiry | Sociology 2019-10-21
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 171
Who counts as Asian
Ethnic and Racial Studies | Sociology 2019-10-14
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 92
The Future Strikes Back: Using Future Treatments to Detect and Reduce Hidden Bias
Sociological Methods & Research | Sociology 2019-10-04
5
Altmetric Attention Score: 75
Pathways toward Change: Ideologies and Gender Equality in a Silicon Valley Technology Company
Gender & Society | Sociology 2019-10-10
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Law

In October 2019, 56 Law journals published 206 papers.

The most active journals were:


 

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

1
Altmetric Attention Score: 41
Trust, regulation, and redistribution why some governments overregulate and under‐redistribute
Regulation & Governance | Political Science Law 2019-10-18
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 33
Constitutional Protection of Children’s Rights: Visibility, Agency and Enforceability
Human Rights Law Review | Political Science Law 2019-10-14
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 28
Mapping the rise of digital mental health technologies: Emerging issues for law and society
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry | Law 2019-10-15
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 17
Global Environmental Law: Context and Theory, Challenge and Promise
Transnational Environmental Law | Law 2019-10-31
5
Altmetric Attention Score: 16
The Legal Framework for UK Aid After Brexit
Current Legal Problems | Law 2019-10-12
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Geography

In October 2019, 60 Geography journals published 422 papers.

The most active journals were:


 

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

1
Altmetric Attention Score: 492
How Might Autonomous Vehicles Impact the City? The Case of Commuting to Central Adelaide
Urban Policy and Research | Geography 2019-10-09
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 86
Graffiti saves birds: A year-round pattern of bird collisions with glass bus shelters
Landscape and Urban Planning | Geography 2019-10-16
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 82
Where does ethnic concentration matter for populist radical right support? An analysis of geographical scale and the halo effect
Political Geography | Political Science Geography 2019-10-25
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 64
“The truth is not in the middle”: Journalistic norms of climate change bloggers
Global Environmental Change | Geography 2019-10-25
5
Altmetric Attention Score: 42
Pushing regional studies beyond its borders
Regional Studies | Geography 2019-10-22
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History

In October 2019, 52 History journals published 668 papers.

The most active journals were:


 

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

1
Altmetric Attention Score: 610
On Acknowledgments
American Historical Review | History 2019-10-11
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 63
Reforming Food and Eating in Protestant England, c. 1560–c. 1640
Historical Journal | History 2019-10-30
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 42
Teenage Girls, Female Friendship And The Making Of The Sexual Revolution In England, 1950–1980
Historical Journal | History 2019-10-10
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 39
Working-Class Autobiographers Born 1819
Journal of Victorian Culture | History 2019-10-22
5
Altmetric Attention Score: 37
Politics In Schoolgirl Debating Cultures In England, 1886–1914
Historical Journal | History 2019-10-21
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Area Studies

In October 2019, 47 Area Studies journals published 306 papers.

The most active journals were:


 

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

1
Altmetric Attention Score: 295
Unsettling SpongeBob and the Legacies of Violence on Bikini Bottom
Contemporary Pacific | Area Studies 2019-10-06
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 87
The end of military-techno Pax Americana? Washington’s strategic responses to Chinese AI-enabled military technology
Pacific Review | Political Science Area Studies 2019-10-21
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 62
The Motivations and Dynamics of Zimbabwe’s 2017 Military Coup
African Affairs | Political Science Area Studies 2019-10-30
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 51
Ethnic Governance under Xi Jinping: The Centrality of the United Front Work Department & Its Implications
Journal of Contemporary China | Area Studies 2019-10-13
5
Altmetric Attention Score: 22
Visions of stagnation and maldistribution: monopoly capital, ‘white monopoly capital’ and new challenges to the South African Left
Review of African Political Economy | Political Science Area Studies 2019-10-08
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Communication

In October 2019, 67 Communication journals published 355 papers.

The most active journals were:


 

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

1
Altmetric Attention Score: 418
Is Automated Journalistic Writing Less Biased? An Experimental Test of Auto-Written and Human-Written News Stories
Journalism Practice | Communication 2019-10-29
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 152
Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign
Political Communication | Political Science Communication 2019-10-26
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 103
Fact-Checking: A Meta-Analysis of What Works and for Whom
Political Communication | Political Science Communication 2019-10-24
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 88
Rhetoric’s rac(e/ist) problems
Quarterly Journal of Speech | Communication 2019-10-23
5
Altmetric Attention Score: 82
“This Is What the News Won’t Show You”: YouTube Creators and the Reactionary Politics of Micro-celebrity
Television & New Media | Communication 2019-10-17
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Research Highlights | 2019-10-13
Monthly Report | September 2019 in the Social Sciences
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?