''Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences'' is a biannual

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covering

social Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not. Etymology The word "social" derives from ...

and behavioral science research

methodology In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods. However, the term can also refer to the methods themselves or to the philosophical discussion of associated background assumptions. A method is a structured procedure for bri ...

. It was established in 2005 from the merger of two other journals: ''Metodologia de las Ciencias del Comportamiento'' and ''Methods of Psychological Research-Online''. It is published by

Hogrefe Publishing Hogrefe Publishing Group (formerly Verlag Hans Huber) is an international company that publishes academic journals and books in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. The first company in the group, Hogrefe Verlag Göttingen, was founded in 1949 ...

on behalf of the European Association of Methodology, of which it is the official journal. The editors-in-chief are

Jost Reinecke Jost Reinecke (born 20 August 1957) is the professor of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research at Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University. Academia Jost Reinecke is Professor of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research and b ...

(

University of Bielefeld Bielefeld University (german: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization a ...

) and José-Luis Padilla (

University of Granada The University of Granada ( es, Universidad de Granada, UGR) is a public university located in the city of Granada, Spain, and founded in 1531 by Emperor Charles V. With more than 60,000 students, it is the fourth largest university in Spain. Apar ...

). According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 1.143.

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