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Studying social networks in the age of computational social science
Social and behavioral sciences now stand at a critical juncture. The emergence of Computational Social Science has significantly changed how social...
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Computational social science with confidence
There is an ongoing shift in computational social science towards validating our methodologies and improving the reliability of our findings. This is...
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Reformulating computational social science with citizen social science: the case of a community-based mental health care research
Computational social science is being scrutinised and some concerns have been expressed with regards to the lack of transparency and inclusivity in...
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Articulating the social responsibilities of translational science
In recent funding calls, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences has shifted its focus from “translational research,” which applies...
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Scientific metaphysics and social science
Recently, philosophers have developed an extensive literature on social ontology that applies methods and concepts from analytic metaphysics. Much of...
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A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science
Journal editors have a large amount of power to advance open science in their respective fields by incentivising and mandating open policies and...
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Critical computational social science
In her 2021 IC2S2 keynote talk, “Critical Data Theory,” Margaret Hu builds off Critical Race Theory, privacy law, and big data surveillance to...
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Citizen science for social physics: digital tools and participation
Social physics is an active and diverse field in which many scientists with formal training in physics study a broad class of complex social...
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The social contract for science and the value-free ideal
While the Value-Free Ideal (VFI) had many precursors, it became a solidified bulwark of normative claims about scientific reasoning and practice in...
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Social and cognitive diversity in science: introduction
In this introduction to the Topical Collection on Social and Cognitive Diversity in Science , we map the questions that have guided social...
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Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science
Quantum mechanics supersedes classical mechanics, and social science, some argue, should be responsive to this change. This paper finds that two...
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Thinking spatially in computational social science
Deductive and theory-driven research starts by asking questions. Finding tentative answers to these questions in the literature is next. It is...
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A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous...
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Five social science intervention areas for ocean sustainability initiatives
Ocean sustainability initiatives – in research, policy, management and development – will be more effective in delivering comprehensive benefits when...
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Intelligent Civilization and Intelligent Social Science
Intelligent science will need to be a separate discipline in the future, and it consists of three primary fields: intelligent science theory,...
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Social Darwinism Revisited: How four critics altered the meaning of a near-obsolete term, greatly increased its usage, and thereby changed social science
Many social scientists still resist Darwinian insights. A possible reason for this is a fear of being associated with Social Darwinism. This article...
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Computational social science is growing up: why puberty consists of embracing measurement validation, theory development, and open science practices
Puberty is a phase in which individuals often test the boundaries of themselves and surrounding others and further define their identity – and thus...
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Survey of open science practices and attitudes in the social sciences
Open science practices such as posting data or code and pre-registering analyses are increasingly prescribed and debated in the applied sciences, but...
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Hostility has a trivial effect on persuasiveness of rebutting science denialism on social media
Polarised social media debates between science deniers and advocates for science frequently devolve into hostilities. We conducted four preregistered...
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Scientific Communication Observed with Social Systems Theory. An Introduction and Outlook to Pure Science for Society
In this article, we introduce the reader to a social systems-theoretical concept of science, with particular emphasis on the role of theorising...
