The impact factor (IF) ranks the quality of academic journals. The excessive importance given to IF has disadvantaged journals that are not in the high-IF elite, as well as the social sciences. Objective: To analyze whether health science journals with a higher IF include stricter ethical requirements. Method: We conducted a bibliometric review of the journal classification system managed by the Coordinating Commission of National Institutes of Health and Specialized Hospitals (CCINSHAE) in Mexico. The 90 indexed journals were grouped according to their IF, and those that published social research in health between February and November 2014. For the 55 journals identified, we examined the ethical mandates outlined in their instructions for authors to assess their compliance with international ethical guidelines. Results. The most common ethical requirements in instructions to authors were related to authorship, co-authorship, duplicate publication, simultaneous submission, protection, and safekeeping of data. Conclusions. We conclude that the IF is not a metric that can take the place of the quality of a journal, and less of its handling of ethical questions or as a guarantor of ethics in publication.
This article quantifies the economic value of women's unpaid labor in small-scale livestock systems in Hidalgo, Mexico. Methodologically, it consists of an exploratory, mixed-methods study that applied semi-structured interviews and two participatory tools (the 24-Hour Clock and the Labor Auction) to five rural women. The results show that the participants dedicate up to ten hours daily to animal care simultaneously with their domestic chores. This unpaid animal care labor represents an average monthly replacement value of MXN $25,957.44 per family production unit if local remunerated labor were hired. It is concluded that while these activities contribute to family economic sustainability and promote animal and family welfare, they remain invisible because they are considered an extension of domestic obligations, making it urgent to integrate a gender perspective into rural development policies.
This scoping review maps 36 studies on fear of missing out (FOMO) and problematic social media use published between 2016 and April 2026 in Scopus, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and SciELO. Following PRISMA-ScR, it aims to synthesize the available evidence and introduce a sociological reading focused on platform design, the attention economy, and digital inequality. Results show robust positive associations between FOMO and problematic use (r = 0.38-0.47 across meta-analyses), but also substantial heterogeneity in FOMO's analytical position: depending on the study, it appears as a predictor, mediator, moderator, or outcome in relation to dimensions such as selfesteem, social comparison, epistemic trust, anxious attachment, and interdependent self-construal. The sociological reading proposed here conceptualizes FOMO as a structural amplifier of platform-related distress: not as a direct cause, but as an articulation point between subjective vulnerabilities and architectures of visibility, notification, recommendation, and constant updating that may intensify experiences of exclusion, social urgency, and compulsive connectivity. The review identifies gaps regarding inequality, platform design, and Global South evidence that should guide future sociological research.
There is a rich debate surrounding emotional management in paid work within the social sciences; however, its application to unpaid work under precarious living conditions is more recent. This article examines the experiences and emotional meanings that female agricultural workers in the Maule region of Chile attribute to their work, linking them to gender identity elements from a phenomenological perspective. The findings show how the interviewees emotionally manage the pain, shame, and sadness stemming from their work, shaping or suppressing these emotions through pride, sacrifice, solidarity, and moral responsibility-mechanisms that ultimately enable the reproduction of life. Nevertheless, we conclude that this emotional management shifts the responsibility onto their intimate lives, thereby attenuating demands placed on employers and the state, while obscuring limited family co-responsibility to ensure fairer and more conditions.
This study examines the evolution of radio advertising in Spain by analyzing changes in commercial airtime, radio spot prices, and commercial strategies in the digital era. A mixed-methods approach was employed in two phases: a quantitative analysis based on data from Infoadex (2019-2024) and a qualitative study involving interviews with professionals in the field. The results show a decline in advertising occupancy on traditional radio and a decrease in the final price of spots on general-interest stations, compared with an increase on situational radio stations. Furthermore, a trend toward the integration of strategies combining analog and digital audio is identified, as well as a possible shift toward programmatic advertising models. The study concludes that digitalization is driving a process of adaptation in the commercial strategies of linear radio, characterized by the coexistence of traditional marketing models with new dynamics of targeting and automation typically found in digital audio.
