Cssci is a Chinese social science citation index, which is an acronym for English names. It is a landmark project successfully developed by Nanjing University in the field of humanities and social sciences evaluation in China.

Cssci follows the law of bibliometrics, adopts the method of combining quantitative and qualitative evaluation, and selects journals with strong academic and standardized editing from more than 2,700 Chinese academic journals of humanities and social sciences as source journals.