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Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis
In the field of metascience the term reproducibility refers to using the same analytical tools and procedures on the same dataset to confirm if the...
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The effects of the global health crisis on U. S. immigration policies: shifting political agenda-setting and the mobility crisis of immigrants
The continuing health crisis (COVID-19) reinforces a historical pattern in which partisan-elected officials engage as legislative policy...
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Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement
The “reproducibility crisis” has been one of the most significant stories in science in the past 15 years and has led to significant policy changes...
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An empirical comparison of correlation-based systemic risk measures
Despite the growing attention in the last years on the topic of systemic risk, a widely accepted definition of systemic crisis is missing. We use a...
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Sex-differences in excess death risk during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of the first wave across Italian regions. What have we learned?
In this commentary, we bring together knowledge on sex-differences in excess death during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, one of...
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Introduction
This chapter provides a concise summary of metascience and why it matters to researchers who study the autism spectrum. It also furnishes the reader...
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Autobiographical Memory and Its Critics
Whenever we face a new problem, we recall the similar ones we encountered in the past, so we try to solve it with all the information available to...
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Challenges and Limitations of Geospatial Data and Analyses in the Context of COVID-19
The global COVID-19 pandemic has infected public consciousness with a new appreciation of geospatial analyses in public health. Not since John Snow’s...
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The Values of the Gutenberg Era: Myth and Media Rhetoric
Sixty years after its first publication, The Gutenberg Galaxy can still be read as an attentive and stunning analysis of the communicative complexity...
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Introduction. The Lure of Communication: A Sociological Path
This introductory chapter deals with some research pathways concerning the convergence of sociology and rhetoric, also investigated through the...
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Testing structural equation model fit in psychological studies: A replication study using equivalence testing
This study applies equivalence testing methods on a representative sample of published empirical structural equation modeling studies in the...
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Digital Cosmopolitism: Ulrich Beck and Communication as “Public Bad”
The chapter deals with the representative shifts engendered by the digital revolution, probed by Ulrich Beck in his posthumous analysis of the...
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Open Science, Replicability, and Transparency in Modelling
Recent years have seen large changes to research practices within psychology and a variety of other empirical fields in response to the discovery (or...
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The emergence of multimorbidity as a matter of concern: a critical review
Multimorbidity is considered one of the greatest emerging challenges for contemporary health care systems. However, the meaning of the term...
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Characteristics and changes in Japanese public administration research: statistical content analyses of article titles in Public Administration Review Quarterly (1978–2019)
The objective of this study is to understand features of Japan’s public administration research and the changes it has undergone, by using content...
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Preregistration and Registered Reports in Sociology: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Other Considerations
Both within and outside of sociology, there are conversations about methods to reduce error and improve research quality—one such method is...
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Linking Up Bell Beakers in the Iberian Peninsula
Many studies in complexity theory employ agent-based models whose interactions can be expressed as networks. In such models, the pattern of...
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The Housing Crisis in America and the Policies That Created and Promoted It
While government housing policy after the Second World War supported building more affordable housing for returning veterans, by the 1960s and 1970s...
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Five worlds of social reproduction after the new millennium: placing transitional China in a three-dimensional model of social reproduction
Since the late 2000s, China has accelerated reconstruction of the welfare state against the backdrop of the second transition. Following a...
