I absolutely stay strictly to this, thanks for expressing it in such
a way,
Pietro
Il 02/12/14 22:56, Kathleen Carley ha scritto:
> I think that some of that would be fine - but one thing that has kept
> JASSS special vis the other simulation journals has been the
> social/theory side of things and the philosophy of simulation. I think
> we would want to keep that and not just focus on techniques and math.
>
>
> On 12/2/2014 1:29 PM, Sallach, David L. wrote:
>> I agree that JASSS has been open to all the social sciences, plus other
>> research domains in which research strategies are methodologically
>> relevant. If we wish to emphasize interdisciplinarity in the journal,
>> we may want to especially encourage research that explores cross-domain
>> interaction.
>>
>> As long as we are having this type of discussion, there is another
>> question that pertains to JASSS focus. If the progression of other
>> disciplines is any indication, we can expect the role of simulation in
>> the research process to shift. More innovations will be in domain
>> mathematics and/or its validation, with simulation models exploring the
>> resulting spaces and shapes, including how the modeled processes scale
>> up. Should we expect JASSS to publish mathematical innovations and
>> their associated validation techniques, as well as the simulation itself?
>>
>> David L. Sallach, Social Scientist
>> Social and Behavioral Systems
>> Systems Science Center
>> Global Security Sciences Division
>> Argonne National Laboratory
>> 9700 South Cass Avenue
>> Argonne, IL 60439
>> (630) 252-5760
>>
>> From: Claudio Cioffi-Revilla <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>> Reply-To: Claudio Cioffi-Revilla <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 8:51 AM
>> To: "[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>"
>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>> Subject: Re: [SIMSOC] JASSS "Scope"
>>
>> JASSS as it has always been: focused on computational social science,
>> not on just computational sociology. Many excellent papers across *all*
>> the social sciences, and complex adaptive social systems, have been
>> published in the Journal, including computational sociology. My own
>> research interests are on conflict, climate change, disasters, complex
>> crises, and CSS methodology, and I have always seen JASSS as a premier
>> outlet for all of these and other topics, as long as the CSS approach is
>> central. JASSS is a great asset to the CSS community precisely because
>> it has managed to stay away from a single computational discipline. It
>> should remain that way and stay abreast of the latest developments and
>> advances in CSS.
>>
>>
>> ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
>> Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Ph.D.
>> Professor of Computational Social Science
>> Interim Vice President for Research
>> Director, Center for Social Complexity
>> George Mason University
>> 4400 University Drive, MSN 3A2
>> Fairfax, Virginia 22030 USA
>> Tel. (703) 993–2268 | kheflin2 AT gmu DOT edu
>> Executive Assistant: Ms. Kelly Heflin
>>
>> /All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point
>> is to discover them.—/Galileo Galilei
>>
>>> On Dec 2, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Edmund Chattoe-Brown
>>> <[log in to unmask]
>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Three thoughts:
>>>
>>> 1) Having one paper rejected is not very good evidence for base for any
>>> "trend" in the policy or publication pattern of JASSS. Even having it
>>> published in a paper with a higher IF doesn't necessarily make it a
>>> better paper. (This is a worryingly common delusion amongst academics:
>>> See "“Censorship”, Early Childhood Research Quarterly and Qualitative
>>> Research: Not So Much Aced Out as an Own Goal?" on
>>> https://leicester.academia.edu/EdmundChattoeBrown.)
>>> 2) JASSS can only publish what it receives. It is possible that, for
>>> example, psychology is less aware on average of this as a publishing
>>> outlet than sociology is. That is certainly something that could be
>>> investigated (and ESSA is already offering money to reach new
>>> communities) but I doubt it is a "policy" nor resolvable by policy.
>>> 3) I am not sure that the pursuit of impact factor is a very wise goal.
>>> A free online journal will always get a "boost" over a print journal
>>> (because increasingly people cite what they can get not what they need.)
>>> It may be a tactless example but an IF of 1.733 puts JASSS at 29 in the
>>> 138 journal sociology list. That is pretty good for such a specialist
>>> journal. Many of the journals above it are general and the specialist
>>> ones usually have large practitioner readerships (Journal of Marriage
>>> and the Family, Sociology of Education.) There are a few exceptions to
>>> these patterns but on the whole I doubt we would _expect_ to be able to
>>> beat most of these journals in impact. Let's submit, review and publish
>>> the best articles we can (so that people will want to cite them) and the
>>> IF will take care of itself.
>>>
>>> I think there are useful discussions to be had about reaching and
>>> including small or nascent ABM communities (history, criminology,
>>> education, Social Network Analysis) both for JASSS and ESSA/WCSS but
>>> this is a matter of "marketing" and personal contact/persuasion not
>>> JASSS "policy". Inviting these groups to put together themes, tracks or
>>> special issues is an option (as would be commissioning rolling subject
>>> area reviews: See American Behavioural Scientist 1999, 42(10) for four
>>> examples) but this doesn't really bear on the bulk of JASSS business.
>>> (To get JASSS rolling back in 1998, we did a lot of persuasion to get
>>> credible submissions until after a year or so people would do it
>>> themselves. If we want more psych - or whatever - in JASSS, who knows a
>>> really good "mainstream" psych who would be willing to be persuaded to
>>> put something in?)
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> Edmund
>>>
>>> --
>>> Edmund Chattoe-Brown
>>> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>> --
>>> http://www.fastmail.com - Accessible with your email software
>>> or over the web
--
The world is full of interesting problems to be solved!
Home page http://web.econ.unito.it/terna
