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The Review of Socionetwork Strategies (RSS) ed. by the Society of Socionetwork Strategies published by Springer Japan as an electronic journal

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Aims and Scope

The Review of Socionetwork Strategies promotes data mining and data analysis for business and the economy through interdisciplinary research between computer science and the social sciences. The Review welcomes articles such as those dealing with business, economic and statistical analyses related to large-scale networks, and to huge amounts of data. The focus of The Review of Socionetwork Strategies is on empirical findings, methodologies, and theoretical and conceptual insights across areas of research in policy and in advanced information technology such as cloud computing, data mining, and multi-agent simulation. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, consumer behavior, corporate strategy, industrial organization, and government policy in the fields of finance, medicine, nursing care, and retail, for example.

Information

• The Ninth Issue was published in December, 2011.
• The Eighth Issue was published in June, 2011.
• The Seventh Issue was published in December, 2010.
• The Sixth Issue was published in June, 2010.
• The Fifth Issue was published in December, 2009.
• The Fourth Issue was published in June, 2009.
• The Third Issue was published in October, 2008.
• The Second Issue was published in March, 2008.
• The First Issue was published in March, 2007.
• The submission is welcomed at all times.

Instructions to Authors

Please send your paper to the liaison office at by e-mail.

The Review of Socionetwork Strategies welcomes submissions of two categories of manuscripts.

• ・Articles (limited to 15 printed pages) are expected to present major advances in Socionetwork Strategies.
• ・Research Notes (limited to 8 printed pages) are expected to present important new research results of broad significance. This category accepts papers that do not have the full quality and research breadth of an Article, but do present the possibility of a new field in Socionetwork Strategies.

If all of the authors are PhD students and/or below PhD level, authors must provide a PDF version of the recommendation/permission letter from the first author’s academic supervisor. The PDF version of letter should be sent from the first author’s academic supervisor's official email address.
Permission recommendation letter

Publishing Procedures

• 1.To submit to The Review of Socionetwork Strategies, you must send both the MS Word and the PDF version of your manuscript. In either category, your manuscript should adhere to the formatting standards (Microsoft Word file) and to the instructions to contributors. The submission template is as follows:
  Word template for preparing manuscripts ( ver.3, Updated in June 2010 )
  In addition, you must create a PDF version of your manuscript.
  
• 2.The manuscript should be sent to the liaison office along with corresponding information including name, affiliated institution, address, and email address. The submitters should designate the category of his/her paper, so that it can be reviewed as an Article or as a Research Note.
• 3.The manuscript will be peer-reviewed by more than two anonymous referees. Editors at The Review of Socionetwork Strategies make a decision of acceptance, rejection, or conditional acceptance based on reports from their referees. Authors of papers that are not highly rated are notified promptly, within about 10 weeks.
• 4.Authors are requested to revise their manuscript according to referees' comments and suggestions and questions. In certain cases, there is a possibility that the manuscript will be promoted to an Article or demoted to a Research Note by determination of the Editorial Board. The authors should return the revised manuscript with answers to the referees' remarks.
• 5.In the case of acceptance, authors are requested to submit their camera-ready manuscript for publication in both PDF and MS Word according to the formatting standards.
• 6.All accepted manuscripts must be proofread in English by our agent, Edit Science at the author's or their affiliated institution's expense. Edit Science, Inc. http://www.editscience.com/
• 7.After completing the process of proofreading, the manuscript will be published.

Editorial Board

LIAISON OFFICE

RISS: The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University, 3-3-35 Yamate-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan

The Society of Socionetwork Strategies

Article (PDF)

The Society of Socionetwork Strategies has been publishing the Review of Socionetwork Strategies, with Springer, since March 2007.