FIELD METHODS – CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAL ISSUES

 
This is to let you know that FIELD METHODS has been accepted into the Social Science Citation Index database.
 
Now in its 20th year, FM is a quarterly, international journal, published by Sage Publications and supported by an international board of editors from across the social sciences.
 
For information about submitting articles to FM, go to : http://www.qualquant.net/FM/
 
FIELD METHODS solicits articles about new methods in social sciences and on new uses for existing methods.
 
FIELD METHODS also publishes special issues.
 
FM publishes articles on methods for collecting, analyzing and presenting data about human thought and human behavior under field conditions. By “field conditions,” we mean all conditions except the lab.
 
FM publishes articles on topics ranging from getting past gatekeepers in ethnographic fieldwork to the construction of web-based surveys; from response effects in surveys to sampling under field conditions; from techniques for direct observation of behavior to techniques for coding and analyzing text. FM also publishes occasional essays on epistemological issues.
 
FM’s motto is “methods belong to all of us.” Regardless of our epistemological or theoretical assumptions, no method belongs to a field. Ethnographers today regularly do surveys and field experiments; survey researcher today regularly do ethnographic or cognitive interviewing to develop questions; and scholars in every social science discipline regularly analyze text and other qualitative data (still and moving images, for example).