The integration of social science with computer science and engineering fields has
produced a new area of study: computational social science. This field applies …

The question whether and how climatic factors influence human migration has gained both
academic and public interest in the past years. Based on two meta-analyses, this paper …

THE PAST THREE DECADES OF RESEARCH ON SOCIAL determinants of health have
produced a wealth of evidence demonstrating how the conditions of daily life shape …

Web scra**, defined as the automated extraction of information online, is an increasingly
important means of producing data in the social sciences. We contribute to emerging social …

Censuses and representative sampling surveys around the world are key sources of data to
guide government investments and public policies. However, these sources are very …

Computational social science provides an innovative set of methodological tools that can
help answer questions of substantive interest to migration and integration research. In this …

Scientific ideas on the human population tend to be rooted in a “slow demography”
paradigm, which emphasizes an inertial, predictable, self‐contained view of population …

Measuring and forecasting migration patterns has important implications for understanding
broader population trends, for designing policy effectively and for allocating resources …

In times of crisis, real‐time data map** population displacements are invaluable for
targeted humanitarian response. The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 …

An accurate estimation of international migration is hampered by a lack of timely and
comprehensive data, and by the use of different definitions and measures of migration in …