Transparency is a critical aspect of systems science. While transparency of quantitative
models has been assessed, transparency of their qualitative structures has been less …

Saturation is a useful concept for system dynamics, yet it has not been widely explored or
integrated into the modeling process. In this article, we describe saturation as a metaphor …

We introduce and test the System Dynamics Bot, a computer program leveraging a large
language model to automate the creation of causal loop diagrams from textual data. To …

Cognitive maps, or mental maps, are externalized portrayals of mental models—people's
mental representations of reality and their presumptions about how the world works. They …

Qualitative data are commonly used in the development of system dynamics models, but
methods for systematically identifying causal structures in qualitative data have not been …

Shocks effects are under-theorised in the growing literature on health system resilience.
Existing work has focused on the effects of single shocks on discrete elements within the …

The recent advent of artificial intelligence (AI) language tools like ChatGPT has opened up
new opportunities in qualitative research. We revisited a previous project on obesity …

Effective governance of complex social‐ecological systems requires diverse stakeholders to
be engaged in meaningful participatory processes. Meaningful participation must be …

Documenting the process of building a simulation model is different from documenting the
simulation model itself. Good model‐building practice includes the discovery of potentially …

Background Rural veterans experience more challenges than their urban peers in
accessing primary care services, which can negatively impact their health and wellbeing …