“…This special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science presents 11 articles reflecting the above‐mentioned three elements (Jin et al , ; Tan et al , ; Jiang et al , ; Pan et al , ; Wang et al , ; Yu et al , ; Qi et al , ; Li et al , ; Shan et al , , ; Yu et al , ). These papers show the evidence that it is desirable to apply systems approach or methodologies to many different fields (Yu et al , ; Wan and Jones, ; Zhao et al , ).…”