In recent years, Nature Portfolio journals published dozens of research articles at the intersection of social and computational sciences. This work focused on fundamental research questions, such as ...

Researchers look at how AI (large language models or LLMs in particular) could change the nature of social science research. In an article published yesterday in the journal Science, leading ...

With the emergence of advanced AI systems, the way social science research is conducted could change. Social sciences have historically relied on traditional research methods to gain a better ...

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. A lot of progress has been made: using randomized, controlled experiments; making ...

Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project”: that’s the headline from reports on the latest ...

The availability of big data has created opportunities to study human behavior at unprecedented scale and detail. Parallel developments in artificial intelligence, network science, and complex systems ...