Online Sex Work and Subscription-Based Digital Platforms: A Scoping Review.

The rise of adult content creation platforms is triggering a deep revision of the social acceptability of new habits and the relations between the human body and marketing practices. However, academic research on this phenomenon is still scarce. This scoping review aimed to summarize and discuss the studies about content creators sharing adult content on subscription-based digital platforms.

Assessing peer review by gauging the fate of rejected manuscripts: the case of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.

This paper investigates the fate of manuscripts that were rejected from -, the flagship journal of social simulation. We tracked 456 manuscripts that were rejected from 1997 to 2011 and traced their subsequent publication as journal articles, conference papers or working papers. We compared the impact factor of the publishing journal and the citations of those manuscripts that were eventually published against the yearly impact factor of and the number of citations achieved by the mean and top cited articles.

Social networks and health status in the elderly: the 'ANZIANI IN-RETE' population-based study.

Background: Certain features of the social environment could maintain and even improve not only psychological well-being, but also health and cognition of the elderly.

Aims: We tested the association between social network characteristics and the number of chronic diseases in the elderly.

Methods: A randomized sample of the elderly population of Brescia, Italy, was evaluated (N = 200, age ≥65 years).

Decrypting Financial Markets through E-Joint Attention Efforts: On-Line Adaptive Networks of Investors in Periods of Market Uncertainty.

This paper looks at 800,000 messages on the Unicredit stock, exchanged by 7,500 investors in the Finanzaonline.com forum, between 2005 and 2012 and measured collective interpretations of stock market trends. We examined the correlation patterns between market uncertainty, bad news and investors' network structure by measuring the investors' communication patterns.