Journal

Survey Research Methods (SRM)

Link to the Survey Research Methods website: surveymethods.org

We are pleased to announce that the twelfth issue (Vol 4 No 3) of the journal is now out!

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

ESRA’s peer-reviewed journal aims to be a high quality scientific publication that will be of interest to researchers in all disciplines involved in the design, implementation and analysis of surveys.

Call for papers

The journal publishes articles in English which discuss methodological issues related to survey research. Two types of papers are in-scope:

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

We encourage articles which take appropriate advantage of the opportunities provided by the web-based format of the journal, for example by including linked documents, video, images, etc. The journal aims to be a forum for the exchange of knowledge between those involved in designing, carrying out and using surveys in academic, government, private and other organisations.

Submission

Submitted articles will be subject to a full peer review process. A panel of approximately 25 Associate Editors from a range of relevant fields will assist the Editor and Co-Editor in this task. Though the review will be thorough, the journal will also aim for relatively quick decisions and short delays between acceptance and publication, taking advantage of a fully electronic process.

The journal is edited by Peter Lynn of the University of Essex, UK, and Rainer Schnell of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. The editors are supported by a multi-national panel of Associate Editors.

Articles must be in English and should be between 4,000 and 15,000 words. Papers for consideration should be submitted by email, preferably as PDF or Word documents, to SurveyResearchMethods@uni-konstanz.de.

Peter Lynn, Editor

24 February 2006