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 ...

Improved methods for social and behavioral sciences research could help enhance public trust in science, says a new study ...

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 ...

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 ...