This paper provides evidence for the role of conferences in generating visibility for academic work, using a 'natural experiment': the last-minute cancellation - due to 'Hurricane Isaac' - of the 2012 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting. We assembled a dataset containing...

Hubbard and Lindsay's article in this issue proposes a framework for generating knowledge based upon significant sameness of replications rather than significant differences. This critique agrees with their basic premise, but points out weaknesses in their proposal to use overlapping confidence...

The classical theory of computation does not represent an adequate model of reality for simulation in the social sciences. The aim of this paper is to construct a methodological perspective that is able to conciliate the formal and empirical logic of program verification in computer science,...

Resumen La economía parece estar ad portas de una revolución científica que requiere de un cambio del actual paradigma que orienta la política económica. Lo anterior ha traído como consecuencia una tensión en el ejercicio profesional que intenta articular un interés privado que define...

During the latter part of the 20th century, work stress became an important societal issue and a huge amount of scientific attention went to studying it. This paper examines the process of formulating and defining the concept of work stress in the occupational health sciences and in industrial...