I. Introduction to SSCI
SSCI (Social Sciences Citation Index), a companion piece of SCI, was also founded by institute for scientific information, USA, and began to exist on 1988. It is a large-scale retrieval tool, which can be used to analyze the number of social science papers in different countries and regions in the world.
According to the official website, SSCI has collected more than 3,000 social science journals. Overlap with journals included in SCI, and include papers related to social science research in journals included in SCI.
Second, the content
It covers 58 social science disciplines 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.
Ssci paper is an international core paper, comparable to sci, except that ssci is a social science citation index, liberal arts, and sci is a scientific citation index. In other words, ssci is an international paper with the level of "pyramid spire" in liberal arts. It can be said that SSCI is as important to humanities and social sciences as SCI is to science and engineering.
Third, the difference between ssci and cssci.
1, ssci and cssci are two different retrieval tools with different application scopes.
Ssci is a social science citation index, and cssci is a Chinese social science citation index. The former is an internationally renowned academic retrieval tool, which is recognized all over the world, while the latter is what we often call the core of Nantah, which is suitable for China.
2. The difficulty of publishing ssci papers is different from that of publishing cssci papers.
Because ssci is an internationally renowned retrieval system, publishing ssci papers needs to be written in English, including a series of matters such as submission and publication, but cssci papers do not. Cssci can be regarded as the most authoritative retrieval tool with the highest academic value in China. It is more difficult to publish cssci papers, but less difficult than ssci papers.