Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of published results are replicated by new studies.

The University of Michigan recently earned the top spot for the second year in a row in the Consortium of Social Science Associations’ 2023 College & University Rankings, which decides how much ...

Basic behavioral and social sciences research is indispensible to the mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Not only do psycho-social-biological factors directly affect disease outcomes ...

Mumbai: The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) be launching a Global Social Science Research Body, which will be aimed ...

Readers respond to an editorial on difficulties with replicability of results in social science research Your editorial on social science research (15 April) highlights the poor replicability of ...

Durham youths live every day of their lives dealing with economic, social, health, racial and judicial issues that shape their communities. If they want to gain experience studying those issues in ...

The availability of big data has created opportunities to study human behavior at unprecedented scale and detail. Parallel developments in artificial intelligence, network science, and complex systems ...

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy informed the National Academy of Sciences that it should terminate all work on this activity. This activity has ended, and a final product was not released.

The applied social science research methods certificate is for students in education, the nonprofit sector and government positions who hold a bachelor's degree. Through this program, you'll learn how ...