Talk:Social Science & Medicine

More eyes would be appreciated

(I copied the following comment here from Talk:Chiropractic #Forest of red links.) Eubulides (talk) 22:14, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

I would also appreciate more eyes on Social Science & Medicine (Soc sci med), since it has a fairly complex publishing history. There are also differing descriptions at various websites. Pubmed says it ran 1967-1977, then was split into sub publications, which were re-merged in 1982. However, the Elsevier website says simply that publication started in 1978. So I'm not sure how to reflect this in the Wikipedia article, and would appreciate other opinions. Thanks, Elonka 21:54, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Follow LC or NLM. Publisher's ideas of history of their journals are often very abbreviated--they are after all writing public relations./. I'll add the history there in a quotation. DGG (talk) 01:58, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Categorization

Category:Social science journals is a top category to which Category:Sociology journals belongs. As the text on top of SS journals states, that category should be empty and journals assigned to an appropriate subcategory. So I assigned the journal to the social sciences category "sociology" and removed "social sciences". Is there something I am missing here? --Crusio (talk) 16:08, 9 December 2009 (UTC) I thought that the fact that psychologists also publish in SSM should also be represented.Iss246 (talk) 21:59, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Not really. It's not a major emphasis of this journal. Many people from many specialities could conceivably publish in a journal like this, but it would go to far to reflect all that in the categorization. See alsso WP:Overcategorization. --Crusio (talk) 22:06, 9 December 2009 (UTC)