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Social research

How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data

Daniele Fanelli

Social impact in social media: A new method to evaluate the social impact of research

Cristina M. Pulido, Gisela Redondo-Sama, Teresa Sordé-Martí, Ramon Flecha

“Positive” Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences

Daniele Fanelli

What is your definition of Big Data? Researchers’ understanding of the phenomenon of the decade

Maddalena Favaretto, Eva De Clercq, Christophe Olivier Schneble, Bernice Simone Elger

Participation in Mass Gatherings Can Benefit Well-Being: Longitudinal and Control Data from a North Indian Hindu Pilgrimage Event

Shruti Tewari, Sammyh Khan, [ ... ], Stephen Reicher

Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare

Gail F. Davies, Beth J Greenhough, [ ... ], Sarah Wolfensohn

First do no harm: An exploration of researchers’ ethics of conduct in Big Data behavioral studies

Maddalena Favaretto, Eva De Clercq, Jens Gaab, Bernice Simone Elger

Social recommendation model based on user interaction in complex social networks

Yakun Li, Jiaomin Liu, Jiadong Ren

Taking a critical stance towards mixed methods research: A cross-disciplinary qualitative secondary analysis of researchers’ views

Sergi Fàbregues, Elsa Lucia Escalante-Barrios, [ ... ], Joan Miquel Verd

The False positive problem of automatic bot detection in social science research

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Jonas Kaiser

Composition and Structure of a Large Online Social Network in the Netherlands

Rense Corten

Towards a second generation of ‘social media metrics’: Characterizing Twitter communities of attention around science

Adrián A. Díaz-Faes, Timothy D. Bowman, Rodrigo Costas

The views, perspectives, and experiences of academic researchers with data sharing and reuse: A meta-synthesis

Laure Perrier, Erik Blondal, Heather MacDonald

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