Alexander Dill

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Have you been cheated by Elsevier yet?

I've just been a victim of a new form of cheating by Elsevier. I signed in with all my data and applied for articles in two Elsevier Journals, Ecological Economics and Journal of Development...

09 September 2016 1,232 84 View

Do you have experience with bias, corruption and cheating in referenced journals?

I recently had. I sent an article (together with a colleague) with a quantitative evaluation of indices. It has been rejected within only three days with two arguments: 1) the journal doesn't...

02 February 2016 4,530 4 View

What about the political responsibility of scientists?

This has been a question at the time of Aristotle yet. Of course the answer differs from country to country, from institute to institute, from subject to subject. And it doesn't concern Social...

12 December 2015 8,806 4 View

Why is it that findings of social sciences are not considered in politics and economy?

Nobel laureates such as Elinor Ostrom, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz share with us the same dilemma: non of our findings are considered in politics and economy. Countries such as the US, Russia...

12 December 2015 2,696 27 View

Do scientists really feel better in life?

Enjoying a broad education, having enough time to reflect on your life, earning money without too much pressure, being surrounded by cultivated and peaceful fellows, achieving societal awareness,...

11 November 2015 5,575 19 View

How biased is the World Bank Development Report 2015?

The most recent World Bank report from 2015 is titled "Mind, Society and Behavior" . It is mainly inspired by endless experimental results from Western Universities and their departments of...

06 June 2015 5,053 26 View

While looking at the current international and national conflicts: do we need to redifine Social Capital?

In the last twenty years the research on Social Capital remained quite unilateral and didn't brought up new ideas to identify, to assess, to preserve, to enhance and to accelerate Social Capital...

01 January 2015 7,981 14 View

What's the World's worth?

Since 1995 the so called 'System of National Accounts' (SNA) defines the value of most of the countries. Divided by the number of inhabitants, we get the Gross Domestic Product per Capita...

01 January 1970 3,859 0 View

Is there a Social Weather?

When we talk on the current - not the future's - weather, we share in general a very low standard deviation. It rains. It's hot. We agree on it. But when we talk on our local social goods and...

01 January 1970 4,977 1 View

What is the impact of the 17 UN Goals on your country?

It was in 2015, when 193 countries agreed on 17 common Goals to achieve up to 2030. Three years after the Goals are still measured by outdated aggregated data from National statistics offices. So...

01 January 1970 1,123 3 View