as this is the first issue of the international archives of health sciences, a scholarly journal of kashan university of medical sciences, we start with an editorial of dr. rouhullah dehghani, the editor-in-chief, to explain the aims and views of the editorial board members and the scope of the journal.

This book is a must-have for philosophers of psychology, philosophers of biology, philosophers of the social sciences, and, more generally, anybody who is interested in the evolution of mind and behavior. The anthropologists Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson have collected twenty of their most important articles written between 1987 and 2003. This collection is an excellent initiative, since thes...

Although the term “empirical research” has become commonplace in legal scholarship over the past two decades, law professors have in fact been conducting research that is empirical—that is, learning about the world using quantitative data or qualitative information—for almost as long as they have been conducting research. For just as long, however, they appear to have been proceeding with littl...

Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal (NAS) - an authoritative source high-impact, original research that broadly spans biological, physical, and social sciences.

Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal (NAS) - an authoritative source high-impact, original research that broadly spans biological, physical, and social sciences.

Does free access to journal articles result in greater diffusion of scientific knowledge? Using a randomized controlled trial of open access publishing, involving 36 participating journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, we report on the effects of free access on article downloads and citations. Articles placed in the open access condition (n=712) received significantly more d...

Corruption is now a popular topic in the social sciences. This expansion of interest is evident in economics and elsewhere, where a large number of articles on this theme have been published in leading journals. Some organizations publish indicative data on corruption. For example, Transparency International publishes a widely cited ―Corruption Perceptions Index‖ for most countries, and these d...