When people rush to SCI with ideals and are eager to share a piece of CSSCI, it is inevitable that they will hit a wall everywhere. In recent years, many C journals have stopped accepting doctoral manuscripts, but the job market is cruel. If you are still lamenting that top international journals are difficult to publish and there are too few domestic C journals, you may wish to change your mind. Now, for a doctor of arts, the most important thing is SSCI. If you send SSCI, you can send anything, including outstanding professors. Don't believe me, look at this:
Accordingly, if you just publish some ordinary C magazines, I'm sorry, maybe you don't want them at all.
Moreover, this phenomenon is also extending to master's applications for doctoral degrees. Many masters apply for doctors from famous universities at home and abroad and win by issuing SSCI.
You must be thinking: can master students still send SSCI? Many C journals in China don't even accept doctoral students, but master students can send English SSCI?
You are absolutely right. Many students and teachers who have published these two periodicals have the experience that many SSCI are not more difficult to publish than Chinese C periodicals. Sending SSCI is actually a shortcut to win the scientific research competition and achieve overtaking in corners. For researchers in the field of social sciences, they can try to publish papers in SSCI Daily.
The number of papers published in SSCI journals is an important yardstick to evaluate whether a researcher is international or not, and it is also a bargaining chip for researchers to stand out from their peers.
And SSCI journals are not difficult to send! Many people have published SSCI. Compared with publishing C magazine in China, SSCI is not as difficult as expected.
Why did you send SSCI? The lecturer listed five reasons:
1, SSCI has a high status. At present, many colleges and universities rank it above many top C journals in China, and its value and recognition are much higher than those of Chinese core C journals (one article is worth 10).
It is an absolute killer for masters to apply for doctors from famous universities at home and abroad with SSCI, for doctors to go to famous universities for employment, and for teachers to evaluate their professional titles with SSCI. Many schools have teachers and students who publish SSCI, which will be reported as news.
2.SSCI is not necessarily difficult. Although a good SSCI will certainly be difficult, a good Chinese C magazine may also be difficult to overwhelm you.
In fact, comparing the quantity, we don't think SSCI is really difficult: there are more than 700 Chinese C-editions (including extended editions), but there are as many as 3,500 SSCI.
Although SSCI faces the world, there are many people in China, so the competition of C magazine is also conceivable. Some teachers have published both journals and think that SSCI is not necessarily more difficult than C.
3, easy to know the process, learning to improve. Many domestic C-type journals still submit articles by mail, which can't keep up with the submission progress in time. However, SSCI can generally see the progress at a glance and get feedback in time during the submission process, which is convenient for learning, modification and improvement.
4.SSCI is fair. It pays attention to originality, the format requirement is not as high as Chinese C, and it is anonymous, which has nothing to do with the manuscript. It doesn't look at the author's title and identity. Unlike some Chinese C magazines, which like to send big articles, juniors can easily pass directly.
5.SSCI is more suitable for future development. Nowadays, the competition of scientific research is becoming more and more fierce, and the future academic survival definitely needs international academic publishing. The national "double first-class" development goal also requires the internationalization of higher education research. China's social science had a poor foundation in the past, so it could only be developed in China, and certainly not in the future.
Therefore, the competition of SSCI in liberal arts research is a current trend. That's why we are very optimistic that in the next 10 year, China's liberal arts society will advance by leaps and bounds and gain the right to speak internationally.