Working in groups and managing projects are important professional skills for engineers, and there is a growing demand to teach and assess such skills. But what should be taught and when? Tuckman’s famous “stages of development of performing groups” provides a framework for understanding the types of challenges which groups face. Yet, as with any abstract model, it will not be transferred into ...

As an Associate Editor, I handle a considerable number of manuscripts submitted to Stress and Health for consideration for publication. Many of these articles are rejected from the journal. Sometimes manuscripts are rejected because they are deemed not to make a sufficiently original contribution to the field or contain ‘fatal flaws’. Often there is very little that can be done in such cases, o...

Ask: Research and Methods is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the methodology of social science research. ASK was fi rst published in 1995 by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Before 2008, ASK followed the tradition of other Polish language scientifi c journals by publishing short English language summaries of the articles. The...

This study considers framing differences among three types of media outlets on Weibo, China's most popular microblog. The author examines Weibo content for China's state-owned media, China's commercial media, and foreign media on the subject of two of China's ongoing territorial disputes. Using content analysis techniques, this work compares framing styles across the three types of media. Findi...

Gender disparities appear to be decreasing in academia according to a number of metrics, such as grant funding, hiring, acceptance at scholarly journals, and productivity, and it might be tempting to think that gender inequity will soon be a problem of the past. However, a large-scale analysis based on over eight million papers across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities reveal...

The format of communicating scientific, technical, and medical (STM) information through professional journals has changed relatively little since the publication in 1665 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s first journal devoted exclusively to science. Although advances in information technology have dramatically altered the search and discovery of scientific inf...

Key to concerns about public involvement in technology governance is the concept of lay expertise, the idea that lay people possess some kind of special knowledge that neither trained experts in technology, ethics and social sciences nor professional politicians possess. There are at least four different meanings of “lay expert”: (1) Lay people who are educated into quasi-experts on a particula...

This article analyses the themes and conceptual-theoretical approaches of the social support in the literature from important international journals about social sciences and medicine, and in from 1983 to 2005 are analyzed. 259 international and 57 national abstracts was reading for the identification and computing the relations of the social support with health/disease/care. A deeper conceptua...

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences (SLJSS) publishes social science articles on topics relevant to in particular and South Asia general. The journal also has a website at http://www.nsf.gov.lk/.

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the study of interactional metadiscourse markers in different contexts. However, not much research has been conducted about the discourse of journal author guidelines, especially the use of meta-discourse markers in this genre. Therefore, this corpus-based study had three main aims: 1) to delve deep into the types, frequencies and f...