NEW JOURNAL "Survey Research Methods": Call for Papers

The journal "Survey Research Methods" invites submissions of papers which discuss methodological issues related to survey research. Two types of papers are in-scope:

1. Papers discussing methodological issues in substantive research using survey data;

2. Papers that discuss methodological issues that are more or less independent of the specific field of substantive research.

Topics of particular interest include survey design, sample design, question and questionnaire design, data collection, nonresponse, data capture, data processing, coding and editing, measurement errors, imputation, weighting and survey data analysis methods.

Survey Research Methods is the official journal of The European Survey Research Association (ESRA) and will be published electronically with free and open access via the internet. We aim for a fast review and publication process, so that papers could be published within three months of initial submission. The first issue is scheduled for Summer 2006.

The journal is edited by Peter Lynn of the University of Essex, UK, and the co-editor is Rainer Schnell of the University of Konstanz, Germany. The editors are supported by a multi-national panel of Associate Editors. The names of the Associate Editors are listed on the website referred to below.

Articles must be in English and should be between 4,000 and 15,000 words. Further information about the journal can be found at the website, http://esra.sqp.nl/esra/journal/. Papers for consideration should be submitted by email, preferably as pdf or Word documents, to SurveyResearchMethods@uni-konstanz.de.