Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen, ich möchte Ihnen den folgenden Call for Papers zur Kenntnis bringen und entschuldige mich vorab, falls Sie den Call mehrfach erhalten. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Mark Trappmann

Call for Papers Special issue "Data Collection in Panel Surveys " of the peer reviewed journal "Methods, Data, Analyses" (mda) edited by Josef Brüderl and Mark Trappmann

Dear Colleague,

We are inviting submission of articles for a special issue of the peer reviewed, free open-access journal "Methods, Data, Analyses" (mda) focusing on "Data collection in panel surveys". Papers should address methodological topics that are unique to the design and implementation of panel surveys. Only papers that address panel-specific issues will be considered.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) measurement issues like panel conditioning, seam effects and dependent interviewing or representation issues like attrition, tracking and panel maintenance, design of refreshment samples, following rules and longitudinal weighting. We also invite submissions concerning the implementation of panel data collection, e.g. questionnaire construction, fieldwork monitoring, use of paradata, adaptive and responsive panel designs, interviewer training and assignment, post collection processing, and editing. We specifically welcome papers that implement field experiments in ongoing panel surveys to address the topics mentioned above.

The special issue offers two different formats. Besides normal length articles of up to 10,000 words, we encourage the submission of shorter research notes of no more than 5,000 words.

Please, consult the information for authors on the mda website for additional information on submission guidelines

http://www.gesis.org/en/publications/journals/mda/authors/#c6599

Please submit your manuscript to mark.trappmann@iab.de. All papers submitted will first be screened by the editors for general suitability and then double-blindly reviewed by at least two reviewers. The decision on publication is made by the editors based on the reviews.

The deadline for submission of papers is 15th February 2016. The special issue is going to be published as mda 2/2016 in autumn 2016. The journal appears in print and online format. All papers published in mda are open licensed under the CC-BY open-access license. Of course, mda does not charge any publication fees.

We are looking forward to your contributions!

Kind regards, Josef Brüderl and Mark Trappmann

Prof. Dr. Mark Trappmann Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) Forschungsbereich E3: Panel "Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung" Regensburger Str. 104 90478 Nürnberg Tel. 0911-179-3096 und Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Fakultät für Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften Lehrstuhl für Soziologie, insbes. Survey-Methodologie 96045 Bamberg