How to distinguish social science journals from scientific journals? Many authors ask this question, journals need to be divided, but there is no standard basis for the division of journals by relevant departments. Periodicals are classified by content: comprehensive periodicals and professional periodicals. According to disciplines, it can be divided into three categories: social science journals, scientific journals and general journals.

Social science journals and sci-tech journals have different content ranges. Social science periodicals are short for social science periodicals, which mainly include social science, philosophy, politics, culture, economy, journalism, education and other disciplines. Sci-tech periodicals are a window to reflect a country's scientific and technological innovation level. It plays a great role in information production and dissemination with the characteristics of large amount of information, new subject content and wide spread.

Social science periodicals can be distinguished from sci-tech periodicals in content. Social science journals include: Journal of Beijing Normal University (Social Science Edition), Comparative Law Research, Seeking Truth, Financial and Accounting Research, Journal of Northeast Normal University, etc. Sci-tech periodicals include: bulletin of science and technology, Science and Technology and Innovation, Science and Technology Management and Research, etc.

The selection of periodicals is a necessary link in the publication of papers. According to the content of the paper, it is necessary to choose the appropriate journals to contribute, and the paper is only valid if it is submitted in a regular and qualified journal. It should be noted that you should never choose illegal journals to contribute, and you should know some characteristics of illegal journals:

Illegal publications:

Publications published without the approval of the administrative department of press and publication are illegal publications, specifically as follows:

1. Illegal publications without serial numbers;

2. Illegal publications with forged serial numbers;

3. Illegal publications with fraudulent serial numbers;

4. Illegal publications using overseas serial numbers;

5. Illegal publications that completely use the names and numbers of other publications.

To sum up, this paper introduces how to distinguish the contents of social science journals from scientific journals for reference only. If you want to know more about the selection of periodicals, you can consult our academic consultants to answer them for you.