Monthly Report | October 2019 in the Social Sciences

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

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:

World Economy (32 papers)
European History Quarterly (30 papers)
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade (26 papers)
Public Choice (26 papers)
Marine Policy (25 papers)
Journal of Politics (22 papers)
West European Politics (21 papers)

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

How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization

American Political Science Review | Political Science 2019-10-31

Does money have a conservative bias? Estimating the causal impact of Citizens United on state legislative preferences

Public Choice | Political Science 2019-10-09

Cows, Charcoal, and Cocaine: Al-Shabaab’s Criminal Activities in the Horn of Africa

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism | Political Science 2019-10-17

Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign

Political Communication | Political Science Communication 2019-10-26

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:

Contemporary Sociology (53 papers)
Sociology of Health & Illness (23 papers)
Sport in Society (20 papers)
Social Indicators Research (19 papers)
Ethnic and Racial Studies (19 papers)
Social Science Research (17 papers)
Social Movement Studies (15 papers)

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

Celebrities, air travel, and social norms

Annals of Tourism Research | Sociology 2019-10-19

Networks of Opposition: A Structural Analysis of U.S. Climate Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989–2015

Sociological Inquiry | Sociology 2019-10-21

Who counts as Asian

Ethnic and Racial Studies | Sociology 2019-10-14

The Future Strikes Back: Using Future Treatments to Detect and Reduce Hidden Bias

Sociological Methods & Research | Sociology 2019-10-04

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:

Regulation & Governance (14 papers)
Annual Review of Law and Social Science (11 papers)
Washington Quarterly (9 papers)
American Journal of International Law (9 papers)
Medicine, Science and the Law (9 papers)
International & Comparative Law Quarterly (8 papers)
Transnational Environmental Law (7 papers)

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

Trust, regulation, and redistribution why some governments overregulate and under‐redistribute

Regulation & Governance | Political Science Law 2019-10-18

Constitutional Protection of Children’s Rights: Visibility, Agency and Enforceability

Human Rights Law Review | Political Science Law 2019-10-14

Mapping the rise of digital mental health technologies: Emerging issues for law and society

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry | Law 2019-10-15

Global Environmental Law: Context and Theory, Challenge and Promise

Transnational Environmental Law | Law 2019-10-31

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:

Journal of Rural Studies (28 papers)
Geoforum (24 papers)
Landscape and Urban Planning (22 papers)
Journal of Transport Geography (20 papers)
Regional Studies (19 papers)
Annals of the American Association of Geographers (17 papers)
Transactions in GIS (15 papers)

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

How Might Autonomous Vehicles Impact the City? The Case of Commuting to Central Adelaide

Urban Policy and Research | Geography 2019-10-09

Graffiti saves birds: A year-round pattern of bird collisions with glass bus shelters

Landscape and Urban Planning | Geography 2019-10-16

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

“The truth is not in the middle”: Journalistic norms of climate change bloggers

Global Environmental Change | Geography 2019-10-25

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:

American Historical Review (156 papers)
Journal of British Studies (54 papers)
Hispanic American Historical Review (42 papers)
Americas (33 papers)
English Historical Review (33 papers)
European History Quarterly (30 papers)
Economic History Review (23 papers)

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

On Acknowledgments

American Historical Review | History 2019-10-11

Reforming Food and Eating in Protestant England, c. 1560–c. 1640

Historical Journal | History 2019-10-30

Teenage Girls, Female Friendship And The Making Of The Sexual Revolution In England, 1950–1980

Historical Journal | History 2019-10-10

Working-Class Autobiographers Born 1819

Journal of Victorian Culture | History 2019-10-22

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:

Iranian Studies (22 papers)
Nationalities Papers (20 papers)
Contemporary Pacific (20 papers)
Mediterranean Politics (12 papers)
Asian Studies Review (12 papers)
London Journal (11 papers)
Bilig (11 papers)

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

Unsettling SpongeBob and the Legacies of Violence on Bikini Bottom

Contemporary Pacific | Area Studies 2019-10-06

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

The Motivations and Dynamics of Zimbabwe’s 2017 Military Coup

African Affairs | Political Science Area Studies 2019-10-30

Ethnic Governance under Xi Jinping: The Centrality of the United Front Work Department & Its Implications

Journal of Contemporary China | Area Studies 2019-10-13

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:

Feminist Media Studies (18 papers)
Political Communication (17 papers)
Public Relations Review (13 papers)
New Media & Society (12 papers)
Journal of Health Communication (11 papers)
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (11 papers)
Journalism Practice (10 papers)

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

Is Automated Journalistic Writing Less Biased? An Experimental Test of Auto-Written and Human-Written News Stories

Journalism Practice | Communication 2019-10-29

Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign

Political Communication | Political Science Communication 2019-10-26

Fact-Checking: A Meta-Analysis of What Works and for Whom

Political Communication | Political Science Communication 2019-10-24

Rhetoric’s rac(e/ist) problems

Quarterly Journal of Speech | Communication 2019-10-23

“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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