Systems Research and Behavioral Science
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| Discipline | Systems sciences |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Michael C. Jackson |
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| History | 1997 |
| Publisher | New York [etc.] : Wiley (Canada) |
| Frequency | United States |
| ISO 4 | Find out here |
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| ISSN | 1712-851X |
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science is an international scientific journal for theory and research in the fields of systems sciences.
Overview
This journal is a central journal for the systems theory community. It emphasizes social science, management, psychology and systems thinking, and less on mathematics and technology. The journals focus is on interdisciplinarity, and generalizability of results across levels.[1]
The aim and scope of the journal is to publish about new theories, research, and applications dealing with systems approaches to organizational and societal structures.[2] The areas includes subjects like Behavior analysis of child development, Behavioural change theories, Cognitive science, Concept map, International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development, Living systems, Living systems theory, System, Systemics, Systems science, Systems theory and Thermoeconomics.
This journal is the official journal of The International Federation for Systems Research initiated by a merge of the journals "Systems research" and "Behavioral science" in 1997. Since 1987 the journal annually publishes General Systems, originally the Yearbook of the Society for General Systems Research.
Editors
The four associate editors of the journal are Robert L. Flood, Ranulph Glanville, John N. Warfield and Gerard de Zeeuw, and the honorary editors are Gerhard Chroust and Jifa Gu.
Among the editorial board of the journal are and were Russell L. Ackoff, Kenneth Bailey, Béla H. Bánáthy, Peter Checkland, Alexander Christakis, Charles François, Enrique Herrscher, Kyoichi Kijima, John Pourdehnad, Yong Pil Rhee, G. A. Swanson, Robert Trappl, Werner Ulrich, and Stuart Umpleby.
See also
References
- ^ Cybernetics and Systems Journals, Principia Cybernetica, 2005. Retrieved 17 June 2008.
- ^ The Journal of Systems Research and Behavioral Science by IFSR 2006, retrieved 28 May 2008.