The publication of ssci paper is also an academic paper, which has high international recognition and academic value, and is comparable to sci. Due to the subject direction, the number of journals retrieved by sci is more than that of ssci, and it may be more difficult for ssci to publish. Not to mention the requirement of English writing level, especially the analysis of experimental data requires the author to be proficient in statistics.

1999 SSCI contains 1809 kinds of the most important social science journals in the world, covering 55 fields such as anthropology, law, economics, history, geography and psychology. The types of documents collected include: research papers, book reviews, special discussions, editorials, autobiographies, letters, etc. 1300 journals were selected. From a professional point of view, it is not difficult to see that ssci is more suitable for the authors of liberal arts, while sci is suitable for the authors of science.