Social science periodical is the abbreviation of social science periodical, which mainly includes social science, philosophy, politics, culture, economy, journalism, education and other disciplines.
Citation Index of Chinese Social Sciences is a citation database developed by China Social Sciences Research and Evaluation Center of Nanjing University, which is used to retrieve the collection and citation of humanities and social sciences papers in China.
CSSCI follows the law of bibliometrics, and adopts a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to select journals with strong academic and standardized editing from more than 2,700 Chinese academic journals of humanities and social sciences as source journals. It has collected more than 500 kinds of academic journals in 25 categories, including law, management, economics, history and political science, and developed the annual data of CSSCI (1998,2009)12, with nearly10 million sources and 6 million citations.