Methodology

About Methodology

Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering social and behavioral science research methodology. It was established in 2005 by the merger of two other journals: Metodologia de las Ciencias del Comportamiento and Methods of Psychological Research-Online.

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It was published from 2005-2019 by Hogrefe Publishing and since 2020 by PsychOpen GOLD (Leibniz Institute for Psychology) as an open-access journal. Methodology is the official journal of the European Association of Methodology. The editors-in-chief are Tamás Rudas (Eötvös Loránd University) and Pablo Nájera (Comillas Pontifical University).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 1.7.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief:

2005–2008 Michael Eid (University of Murcia)

2005–2009 Manuel Ato (Free University of Berlin)

2009–2013 Joop Hox (Universiteit Utrecht)

2010–2011 Julio Sánchez-Meca (University of Murcia)

2012–2015 Nekane Balluerka (University of the Basque Country)

2014–2018 Peter Lugtig (Utrecht University)

2016–2021 Jose-Luis Padilla (University of Granada)

2018–2021 Jost Reinecke (Bielefeld University)

2021–2023 Marcelino Cuesta (University of Oviedo)

2021–2024 Katrijn van Deun (Tilburg University)

2023–2025 Isabel Benítez (University of Granada)

2024–present Tamás Rudas (Eötvös Loránd University)

2026-present Pablo Nájera (Comillas Pontifical University)

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Notable quotes

“The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.”
— Karl Popper (1934) The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Chapter II "On the Problem of a Theory of Scientific Method", Section XI: Methodological Rules as Conventions.
“Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1964) Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr. p. 141.
“A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.”
— Paul Karl Feyerabend (1978) Science in a Free Society. p. 38.
“methodology n. A method suffering from the prevalent 83 percent circumlocuflationary spiral.”
— w:Stan Kelly-Bootle (1981) The Devil's DP Dictionary, p. 82.
“Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.”
— Joel Spolsky (2001) "Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef" on: joelonsoftware.com blog, January 18, 2001.
“Skepticism is my nature. Freethought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.”
— Jerry DeWitt of Recovering from Religion, on Twitter, April 2012.

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