Sociological Methods & Research
Quantitative/Statistical Research (General) | Sociological Research Methods | Sociology (General)
Now Indexed in the Research Papers in Economics (RePEC) database. Search 2010 issue articles here.
When your research depends on the very latest information on the collection, measurement and analysis of data, turn to SMR/Sociological Methods & Research. For more than three decades, SMR has been a leading source of quantitative research methodology in the social sciences.
Each issue of SMR presents new techniques and innovative approaches to recurring research challenges and also clarifies existing methods. SMR/Sociological Methods & Research provides the state-of-the-art tools that researchers and academics like yourself need to hone your skills and increase the validity of your research findings.
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Each quarterly issue of SMR/Sociological Methods & Research brings you empirically based articles from a variety of perspectives, exploring research methods that are applicable to a wide range of fields, including: Anthropology Criminology Demography Economics Education Management Political Science Psychology Sociology
Sociological Methods & Research is a quarterly journal devoted to sociology as a cumulative empirical science. The objectives of SMR are multiple, but emphasis is placed on articles that advance the understanding of the field through systematic presentations that clarify methodological problems and assist in ordering the known facts in an area. Review articles will be published, particularly those that emphasize a critical analysis of the status of the arts, but original presentations that are broadly based and provide new research will also be published. Intrinsically, SMR is viewed as substantive journal but one that is highly focused on the assessment of the scientific status of sociology. The scope is broad and flexible, and authors are invited to correspond with the editors about the appropriateness of their articles.
| Felix Elwert | University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA |
| Shruti Parthasarathy | University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA |
| Stefanie DeLuca | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Brandon Stewart | Princeton University, USA |
| Xiang Zhou | Harvard University |
| George W. Bohrnstedt | American Institute for Research, USA |
| Edgar F. Borgatta | Anthropology, University of Washington, USA |
| Weihua An | Emory University, USA |
| Kenneth A. Bollen | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| Jennie Brand | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Edith de Leeuw | Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| Cees H. Elzinga | VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Jeremy Freese | Stanford University, USA |
| John Gerring | Boston University, USA |
| Gary Goertz | University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Jacques A. P. Hagenaars | Tilburg University, Netherlands |
| David Harding | University of California - Berkeley, USA |
| Melissa Hardy | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Eszter Hargittai | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| John W. Jackson | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Guillermina Jasso | New York University, USA |
| Jack Katz | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Gary King | Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |
| Frauke Kreuter | University of Maryland, College Park, USA |
| Kenneth C. Land | Duke University, USA |
| Joel Levine | Dartmouth College, USA |
| J. Scott Long | Indiana University, USA |
| Ian Lundberg | Cornell University, USA |
| Liying Luo | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| James Mahoney | Northwestern University, USA |
| John Mirowsky | University of Texas-Austin, USA |
| Stephen Morgan | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Trond Petersen | University of California, USA |
| Daniel Powers | University of Texas, Austin, USA |
| Charles C. Ragin | University of California, Irvine, USA |
| Willem E. Saris | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain |
| Nora Cate Schaeffer | University of Wisconsin, USA |
| Carsten Schneider | Central European University, Hungary |
| Mario Luis Small | Columbia University |
| Herbert L. Smith | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Michael E. Sobel | International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution |
| Elizabeth Stuart | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| Roger Tourangeau | Westat, USA |
| Peter G. M. van der Heijden | Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| Tyler J. VanderWeele | Harvard School of Public Health, USA |
| Jeroen Vermunt | Tilburg University, Netherlands |
| Paul von Hippel | University of Texas-Austin |
| David L. Weakliem | University of Connecticut, USA |
| Christopher Winship | Harvard University, USA |
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Please note that the Editor is not obliged to invite any recommended/opposed reviewers to assess your manuscript.
Data Supplements and Appendixes: Authors of quantitative empirical articles must make their data--along with all specialized computer programs, program recodes, and an explanatory file describing what is included and how to reproduce the published results--available for replication purposes. A statement of how that is done must appear in the author’s note of the article. In order to post the data material at the time of publication, authors must send the necessary files and the final version of the paper accepted for publication by the editor at the same time, unless the deadline is extended by the editor to accommodate an author's need to employ the data for subsequent publications. Information that must remain confidential, such as that which would identify survey respondents, should be removed. All files should be sent electronically to the managing editor at smrjournal@gmail.com for posting alongside the electronic publication of the corresponding article. Authors may post the replication material on a personal or institutional Web site of their choosing.
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