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Dr. Kalwant BhopalAnnouncing new Editor-in-Chief for Women’s Studies International Forum

Elsevier is pleased indeed to announce that Dr. Kalwant Bhopal of the University of Southampton will be taking up the role of Editor-in-Chief of WSIF from January 2010.

Dr. Bhopal is Director of the Pedagogy and Curriculum Research Centre at the University of Southampton and has researched and written about ‘race’, ethnicity, gender and equal opportunities inter alia. We welcome Dr. Bhopal to the Editorial Team and wish her and the journal well for 2010 and beyond.

Now receiving over 100,000 downloads per annum, Women’s Studies International Forum continues to grow and develop. Why not submit an article today at: External link  www.elsevier.com/locate/wsif


Poetics

Announcing new Editors for Poetics

Elsevier is pleased indeed to announce that Professor Timothy Dowd (Emory University, USA) and Professor Susanne Janssen (Erasmus University, The Netherlands) will be taking up the role of Editors of Poetics from January 2010.

Both have served on the Board for many years and we wish them and the journal very well. We are further pleased to announce that the outgoing Editor, Professor Kees van Rees will remain affiliated with the journal as Emeritus Editor.

To read more about Poetics or to submit an article, visit: External link  www.elsevier.com/locate/poetic


 Social Science Research

Social Science Research expands!

We are thrilled to announce that Social Science Research is expanding to six issues per annum in 2010. The journal has gone from strength to strength and as well as seeing an increase to its Impact Factor for 2008, it also received more than 130,000 downloads last year. To find out more about the journal or to submit an article yourself, go to External link  www.elsevier.com/locate/ssresearch

 


 

Submit your paper online for the journal Futures

Online Submission for Futures

We are pleased to announce that a new electronic submission and handling system, EES, has been implemented for Futures. This 'Elsevier Editorial System' is a web-based system with full online submission, review and status update capabilities. We invite authors to submit to the journal at the following site: External link  http://ees.elsevier.com/futures.


INCREASING IMPACT IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Social Science & medicineSocial Science & Medicine
2007 Impact Factor WAS 2.453
2008 Impact factor NOW 2.604

Most Cited Social Science Journal*

Social Networks

Social Networks
2007 Impact Factor WAS 1.644
2008 Impact Factor is NOW 2.068

Now ranked 4/99 in the Sociology subject category

Social Science ResearchSocial Science Research
2007 Impact Factor WAS 1.048
2008 Impact Factor NOW 1.423
The Social Science JournalThe Social Science Journal
2007 Impact Factor WAS 0.193
2008 Impact Factor NOW 0.223

FuturesFutures
2007 Impact Factor WAS 0.843
2008 Impact Factor NOW 1.014

International Journal of Intercultural RelationsExternal link  International Journal of Intercultural Relations
2007 Impact Factor WAS 0.938
2008 Impact Factor NOW 0.989

Journal of Aging StudiesJournal of Aging Studies
2007 Impact Factor WAS 0.667
2008 Impact Factor is NOW 0.966
Communist and Post-Communist StudiesCommunist and Post-Communist Studies
2007 Impact Factor WAS 0.529
2008 Impact Factor NOW 0.660
Women’s Studies International ForumWomen’s Studies International Forum
2007 Impact Factor WAS 0.380
2008 Impact Factor NOW 0.394
 
 *© Journal Citation Reports, published by Thomson Reuters, 2009.

 

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Social Science Research

Article featured on Washington Post
We are pleased to congratulate Min-Hsiung Huang whose article External link  Race of the interviewer and the black–white test score gap, was featured in the External link  Washington Post. Visit the Social Science Research External link  homepage.

From 2010, the journal will be moving to six issues per annum, providing more content to its readers and enabling yet faster publication times for its authors. External link  Submit a paper to the journal today.


 Advances in Life Course Research

New Journal Format from 2009
From 2009 the well-established book series External link  Advances in Life Course Research will become a journal under the editorship of Professor Francesco Billari, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy. The journal publishes articles dealing with various aspects of the human life course. For more information visit the External link  journal homepage.


Policy and Society  

Discounted member rate for APPAM Members
As of the 2009 volume a discounted personal subscription rate to the journal External link  Policy and Society has been established for the members of External link  Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management


Social Networks

 

Submissions containing supplementary material
We are delighted to announce that External link  Social Networks encourages submissions containing supplementary material, example articles can be found below.

External link  Social context and network formation: An experimental study
Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2009
Martijn J. Burger, Vincent Buskens

External link  Weight matrices for social influence analysis: An investigation of measurement errors and their effect on model identification and estimation quality
Volume 30, Issue 4, October 2008
Antonio Páez, Darren M. Scott, Erik Volz


 Citations of Excellence Award from Emerald Management

Citations of Excellence Award from Emerald Management
External link  Futures article "External link  The Future According to Jesus: A Galilean Model of Foresight" by Jay E. Gary, volume 40(7), has been selected as one of the 50 best articles published in 2008 in management and has won an Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence.

 

Call for papers


We are pleased to bring you a selection of VSIs from journals across the social sciences. To view the VSIs for a particular journal visit the links below.

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Call for papers
   
Social Science and Medicine

External link  Social Science & Medicine calls for papers for the Special Issue External link  New Approaches to Researching Patient Safety, to be guest edited by Rick Iedema.

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Special issues
 

External linkDeliberative Governance in the Context of Power
Policy and Society, Volume 28, Issue 3, October 2009
Edited by Carolyn M. Hendricks

External link  Activism and Emotional Sustainability
Emotion, Space and Society, Volume 2, Issue 1, July 2009
Edited by Gavin Brown and Jenny Pickerill

External link  Perspectives on Religion in Western Europe
Religion, Volume 39, Issue 2, June 2009
Edited by Michael Stausberg

External link  Narratives of Suffering
Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, April 2009
Edited by Helen K. Black

External link  Circling the Globe: International Feminism Reconsidered, 1910 to 1975
Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 32, Issue 1, Jan-Feb 2009
Edited by Ellen Carol Dubois and Katie Oliviero

External link  The Ghosts of the Past: 20 years after the Fall of Communism in Europe
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Volume 42, Issue 2, June 2009
Edited by Marta Rabikowska

 

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External link  Resettlement for China's Three Gorges Dam: socio-economic impact and institutional tensions
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2000, Pages 223-241
Jackson, S.; Sleigh, A.

External link  Explaining voter turnout: A review of aggregate-level research
Electoral Studies, Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2006, Pages 637-663
Geys, B.

External link  Social status inconsistency and migration
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Volume 27, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 35-49
Lee, J.y.; Toney, M.B.; Berry, E.H.

External link  Every life is sacred...kind of: Uncovering the sources of seemingly contradictory public attitudes toward abortion and the death penalty
The Social Science Journal, Volume 45, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 546-564
Wiecko, F.M.; Gau, J.M.

External link  Data mining techniques for customer relationship management
Technology in Society, Volume 24, Issue 4, November 2002, Pages 483-502
Rygielski, C.; Wang, J.-C.; Yen, D.C.

External link  Living and loving with dementia: Negotiating spousal and caregiver identity through narrative
Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2009
Hayes, J.; Boylstein, C.; Zimmerman, M.K.  

External link  Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com
Social Networks, Volume 30, Issue 4, October 2008
Lewis, K.; Kaufman, J.; Gonzalez, M.; Wimmer, A.; Christakis, N.

External link  Civil society and the reconstitution of democracy in Europe: Introducing a new research field
Policy and Society, Volume 28, Issue 1, April, 2009
Ulrike Liebert, Hans-Jörg Trenz

External link  Cross-cultural differences in apology
International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Volume 33, Issue 1, January, 2009
Xiaowen Guan, Hee Sun Park, Hye Eun Lee

 

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