SpringerPlus is a peer-reviewed, open access journal covering all areas of science. Launched in 2012, the journal has already published over 200 articles and was recently accepted for indexing in Scopus and PubMed Central.

The following are highlighted articles published in the Social Sciences:

• Neuro-fuzzy controller to navigate an unmanned vehicle - Boumediene Selma and Samira Chouraqui
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: the dangers of getting “dinged” - Shaheen E Lakhan and Annette Kirchgessner
• Production and partial characterization of extracellular amylase enzyme from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens P-001 - Promita Deb et al.

SpringerPlus is covered by Springer’s and BioMed Central’s Open Access Membership Program. As HKU is a supporter member, HKU authors will get a 15% discount on the article-processing charges of all research articles accepted for publication in journals published by SpringerOpen. Find out more at http://www.springeropen.com/inst/39413

Policy Sciences offers articles that examine the normative aspects of policy sciences; conceptual articles addressing concrete policy issues; articles on particularly controversial pieces of analysis; opposing perspectives, including critiques and rejoinders on articles already published, which open the journal to an exchange of views rather than restricting it to pure presentation; and special issues that analyze specific topics in depth.

2011 Impact Factor: 2.278

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• Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems: constraining our future selves to ameliorate global climate change - Kelly Levin, Benjamin Cashore, Steven Bernstein, Graeme Auld
• Diversity and constructive conflict in stakeholder dialogue: considerations for design and methods - Eefje Cuppen
• Who teaches and who learns? Policy learning through the C40 cities climate network - Taedong Lee, Susan van de Meene
• Understanding and influencing the policy process - Christopher M. Weible, Tanya Heikkila, Peter deLeon, Paul A. Sabatier
• Research institutes as hybrid organizations: central challenges to their legitimacy - Magnus Gulbrandsen
• The evaluation of climate policy: theory and emerging practice in Europe - Dave Huitema, Andrew Jordan, Eric Massey; et al.
• The contextualist turn and schematics of institutional fit: Theory and a case study from Southern India - Raul P. Lejano, Savita Shankar
• Technology assessment in Australia: the case for a formal agency to improve advice to policy makers - A. Wendy Russell, Frank M. Vanclay, Janet G. Salisbury; et al.

Psychology of Well-Being is a journal devoted to understanding the biopsychosocial and behavioral factors leading to enhanced well-being, optimal emotional processing and the prevention of psychological dysfunction.

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• A Meta-Analysis of hope enhancement strategies in clinical and community settings - R. Weis and E.C. Speridakos
• Building a neuroscience of pleasure and well-being - K.C. Berridge and M.L. Kringelbach
• The role of passion in sustainable psychological well-being - R.J. Vallerand
• The virtuousness of adult playfulness: the relation of playfulness with strengths of character - R.T. Proyer and W. Ruch
• Psychological well-being and psychological distress: is it necessary to measure both? - H.R. Winefield, T.K. Gill, Et al.

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Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal focuses on clinical social work practice with children, adolescents, and their families. The coverage addresses current issues in the field of social work drawn from theory, direct practice, research, and social policy. The range of topics includes problems affecting a variety of specific populations, in special settings.

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• Understanding Parenting as Situated in the Larger Sociocultural Context in Clinical Social Work - M.B. Solem
• A Three-Pronged Approach to Addressing Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in Child Welfare - C. Soderman Duarte and A. Summers
• Distinct Stress and Resource Profiles Among At-Risk Adolescents - P. Logan Greene, P.S. Nurius and E. Adams Thompson
• Engagement in Mental Health Treatment Among Adolescents and Young Adults - HyunSoo Kim, M.R. Munson and M.M. McKay
• Putting a Human Face on Crimes: A Qualitative Study on Restorative Justice Process for Youths - Jung Jin Choi, D.L. Green and M.J. Gilbert

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Journal of Medical Humanities publishes original interdisciplinary studies of medicine and medical education. Research findings emerge from three areas of investigation: medical humanities, cultural studies, and pedagogy

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• Dis-ease or Disease? Ontological Rarefaction in the Medical-Industrial Complex - S.S. Graham
• Autography as Auto-Therapy: Psychic Pain and the Graphic Memoir - I. Williams
• The Theatricalization of Death - T. Zamir
• A History of Physician Suicide in America - R. Legha
• The Medical Humanities and the Perils of Curricular Integration - N. Chiavaroli and C. Ellwood

Psychological Inquiry is an international forum for the discussion of theory and meta-theory. The journal strives to publish articles that represent broad, provocative, and debatable theoretical ideas primarily in the areas of social psychology and personality.

In a major contribution to the era-defining debate, this full Special Issue of Psychological Inquiry offers a range of views on how the Open Access Science movement will impact the study and practice of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.

Impact Factor: 4.727

TARGET ARTICLE

• Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication - Brian A. Nosek & Yoav Bar-Anan

COMMENTARIES

• Toward Open Behavioral Science - Karen E. Adolph et al.
• Does Open Scientific Communication Increase the Quality of Knowledge? - Jens B. Asendorpf
• A Librarian’s Defense of the Practicable Over the Perfect in Scholarly Communication - Jill Cirasella
• Missteps on the Road to Scientific Utopia - Joel Cooper
• Improving Science by Improving Scientific Communication: The View From the APA Publications and Communications Board - Jennifer Crocker
• What Do We Really Want? - David Dunning
• Seeking the Road to Utopia - Paul Fendley
• Will We March to Utopia, or Be Dragged There? Past Failures and Future Hopes for Publishing Our Science - Roger Giner-Sorolla
• Scientific Communication Is Down at the Moment, Please Check Again Later - John P. A. Ioannidis
• Leveraging the Wisdom of Crowds in a Data-Rich Utopia - Ravi Iyer & Jesse Graham
• A Dinosaur Comments on the Coming Apocalypse: Does Anybody Else See That Asteroid? - Laura A. King
• Scientific Utopia or Scientific Dystopia? - Scott O. Lilienfeld
• Modernizing Science - Benjamin W. Mooneyham et al.
• Cheaper and Better: Why Scientific Advancement Demands the Move to Open Access Publishing - Don A. Moore & Elizabeth R. Tenney
• Scientific Utopia: That Which Cannot Exist? - Alison Mudditt & Michael A. Hogg
• Let’s Publish Fewer Papers - Leif D. Nelson et al.
• Let’s Try and Fix the Current Publishing System Before Making Dramatic Change - Richard E. Petty
• The Future of Scientific Publication in Psychology: Utopias and Dystopias - Harry T. Reis
• How Should We Manage Peer Review and Why? - Rebecca Saxe
• Scientific Utopia … or Too Much Information? - Barbara A. Spellman
• Beginning at Nosek and Bar-Anan’s End: Let’s Put Open Evaluation First - Tal Yarkoni

REPLY

• Scientific Communication Is Changing and Scientists Should Lead the Way - Brian A. Nosek & Yoav Bar-Anan

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Res Publica is a peer-review journal of legal, moral and social philosophy focusing on normative analysis of theoretical, practical, and public issues. The journal publishes work of established scholars, as well as those at the beginning of their careers, in both Western and non-Western settings.

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• Estlund on Epistocracy: A Critique - K. Lippert-Rasmussen
• Religious Belief and Freedom of Expression: Is Offensiveness Really the Issue? - P. Jones
• Saving the Polar Bear, Saving the World: Can the Capabilities Approach do Justice to Humans, Animals and Ecosystems? - E. Cripps
• Complicity and the Rwandan Genocide - L. May
• Justice, Holism and Principles - A. Mason

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Race and Social Problems provides an international and multidisciplinary forum for issues germane to race and its enduring relationship to psychological, socioeconomic, political, and cultural problems. The journal publishes original empirical studies, reviews of past research, theoretical studies, and invited essays that advance the understanding of the complexities of race and its relationship to social problems. Coverage includes anthropology, communications, criminology, economics, history, law, political science, psychology, public health, social work, and sociology.

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• Measuring the Economic Racial Divide Across the Course of American Lives - M.R. Rank
• Racial Formation in Theory and Practice: The Case of Mexicans in the United States - D.S. Massey
• Hispanic Fertility, Immigration, and Race in the Twenty-First Century - E.A. Parrado and C.A. Flippen
• Racial Disparities in Early Criminal Justice Involvement - R.D. Crutchfield, M.L. Skinner, K.P. Haggerty, A. McGlynn and R.F. Catalano
• Goal-Striving Stress and Racial Differences in Mental Health - H.W. Neighbors, S. L. Sellers, Rong Zhang and J.S. Jackson

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Wetlands is an international journal concerned with all aspects of wetlands biology, ecology, hydrology, water chemistry, soil and sediment characteristics, management, and laws and regulations. The journal is published 6 times per year, with the goal of centralizing the publication of pioneering wetlands work that has otherwise been spread among a myriad of journals.

2011 Impact Factor: 1.338

Top cited papers from Wetlands:

• Salinity Influence on Methane Emissions from Tidal Marshes - Poffenbarger, Hanna J.; Needelman, Brian A.; Megonigal, J. Patrick
• Ecosystem Carbon Stocks of Micronesian Mangrove Forests - Kauffman, J. Boone et al.
• A Classification of Major Naturally-Occurring Amazonian Lowland Wetlands - Junk, Wolfgang J. et al.
• Salt Marsh Carbon Pool Distribution in a Mid-Atlantic Lagoon, USA: Sea Level Rise Implications - Elsey-Quirk, Tracy et al.
• Estimating the Provision of Ecosystem Services by Gulf of Mexico Coastal Wetlands - Engle, Virginia D.

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Food Security contains a mixture of original refereed papers taking a synthetic view of the science, sociology and economics of food production, agricultural development, access to food, and nutrition, together with review articles, case studies and letters to the editor. The journal covers the principles and practice of food security per se, taking an overview of the subject or analysing it with a broad perspective over its many component disciplines. The journal does not seek to duplicate the coverage of the many publications that focus specifically on those component disciplines.

2011 Impact Factor: 1.970

Top cited papers from Food Security:

• Crops that feed the world 6. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by maize in global food security - Shiferaw, Bekele et al.
• A food systems approach to researching food security and its interactions with global environmental change - Ingram, John
• Crops that feed the World 2. Soybean-worldwide production, use, and constraints caused by pathogens and pests -Hartman, Glen L.; West, Ellen D.; Herman, Theresa K.
• Agricultural investment and international land deals: evidence from a multi-country study in Africa - Cotula, Lorenzo et al.
• Food self-sufficiency and natural hazards in China - Simelton, Elisabeth

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