Social Indicators Research

期刊简介：Since its foundation in 1974, Social Indicators Research has become the leading journal on problems related to the measurement of all aspects of the quality of life. The journal continues to publish results of research on all aspects of the quality of life and includes studies that reflect developments in the field. It devotes special attention to studies on such topics as sustainability of quality of life, sustainable development, and the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The topics represented in the journal cover and involve a variety of segmentations, such as social groups, spatial and temporal coordinates, population composition, and life domains. The journal presents empirical, philosophical and methodological studies that cover the entire spectrum of society and are devoted to giving evidences through indicators. It considers indicators in their different typologies, and gives special attention to indicators that are able to meet the need of understanding social realities and phenomena that are increasingly more complex, interrelated, interacted and dynamical. In addition, it presents studies aimed at defining new approaches in constructing indicators.

【译文】自1974年创刊以来，《社会指标研究》已成为关于衡量生活质量各方面问题的领先期刊。该期刊继续发表关于生活质量各方面研究的结果，并包括反映该领域发展的研究。它特别关注关于生活质量可持续性、可持续发展以及生活质量与可持续性之间关系的研究。期刊中代表的话题涵盖并涉及各种细分，如社会群体、空间和时间坐标、人口构成和生活领域。该期刊展示了涵盖整个社会范围的实证、哲学和方法论研究，致力于通过指标提供证据。它考虑了不同类型指标，并特别关注能够满足理解日益复杂、相互关联、互动和动态的社会现实和现象需求的指标。此外，它还展示了旨在定义构建指标新方法的研究。