Death Studies

Aims & Scope

The Institute of Scientific Information Journal Citations Report for 2005 ranks Death Studies 13th out of 27 journals in Biomedical Social Sciences, 6th out of 31 journals in Social Issues, and 32nd out of 101 journals in Multidisciplinary Psychology, with an Impact Factor of 1.099.

Now published ten times each year, this acclaimed journal provides refereed papers on significant research, scholarship, and practical approaches in the fast growing areas of bereavement and loss, grief therapy, death attitudes, suicide, and death education. It provides an international interdisciplinary forum in which a variety of professionals share results of research and practice, with the aim of better understanding the human encounter with death and assisting those who work with the dying and their families.

Journal of Cave and Karst Studies

http://www.caves.org/pub/journal/

Journal of Artificial Societies and Simulations

http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/jasss.html

Journal for the creation and diffusion of simulations for use in the human sciences. Good stuff. Like this article:

This research note provides a general introduction to REsCape: an agent-based computational framework for studying the relationship between natural resources, ethnicity, and civil war. By permitting the user to specify: (i) different resource profiles ranging from a purely agrarian economy to one based on the artisanal or industrial extraction of alluvial or kimberlite diamonds; (ii) different patterns of ethnic domination, ethnic polarization, and varying degrees of ethnic salience; as well as (iii) specific modes of play for key agents, the framework can be used to assess the effects of key variables — whether taken in isolation or in various combinations — on the onset and duration of civil war. Our objective is to make REsCape available as an open source toolkit in the future, one that can be used, modified, and refined by students and scholars of civil war