Dear all,
ABMs have been fairly widely published in geography journals, including but not limited to the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, International Journal of GIS, Journal of Land Use Science, and Geoforum.
Also some regional science/planning journals:
Environment and Planning B
Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems
In ag econ there has been a bit of success, including several excellent papers in Agricultural Economics and a special issues of the Canadian Journal of Ag Econ. Still an uphill climb on the whole, though. I believe that a few papers have been published in Ecological Economics, and this should be a good target.
This list is not comprehensive but hits the highlight. Citations counts for the geography paper have been good.
Dawn
On 2011-12-19, at 6:46 AM, Edmund Chattoe-Brown wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> What are the highest status/best known/most cited journals which have
> published ABM/social simulation in your particular social science? (And
> what are the citations?) In Sociology the highest impact journals give,
> for the set of search terms <agent based model simulation> the following
> numbers of "hits" (excluding book reviews, editorials and "front/back
> matter"):
>
> American Journal of Sociology 17 (most in one special issue)
> American Sociological Review 11
> British Journal of Sociology 3
> Annual Review of Sociology 23
> Global Networks – A Journal of Transnational Affairs 4
> Sociology of Health & Illness 3
> Journal of Marriage and the Family 1
> Economy and Society 49
> Social Networks 37
> Social Problems 3
>
> However, scanning these quickly, I suspect that many (most?) are false
> positives as it is quite hard to pick a set of search terms that
> uniquely identify what we do. (Could we find an unusual word and always
> use it in our papers to help with this!) Looking more carefully at some
> of the cases with fewer hits, two of the three BJS articles are false
> positives (the other written by yours truly*), the only example in
> Journal of Marriage and the Family is a FP and so on. (I would have done
> more of this but the library computer seems to be acting up.)
>
> I wonder if one thing we could do to promote our research is simply to
> try and get something into journals that haven't had it before ... Would
> anyone else like to share this kind of analysis for economics,
> management, psychology, criminology, demography? (Who else is there
> reading?)
>
> Happy Xmas!
>
> Edmund
>
> * Chattoe, Edmund (2006) 'Using Simulation to Develop and Test
> Functionalist Explanations: A Case Study of Dynamic Church Membership',
> British Journal of Sociology, 57(3), September, pp. 379-397.
>
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