Social Sciences Citation Index

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Science Citation Index
Producer
Clarivate Analytics (Canada and Hong Kong)
Coverage
Disciplines
Social sciences
Record depth
Index & citation indexing
Links

  • Website

  • Title list

The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a commercial citation index product of Clarivate Analytics. It was originally developed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the Science Citation Index.




Contents





  • 1 Overview


  • 2 Criticism


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links




Overview


The SSCI citation database covers some 3,000 of the world's leading academic journals in the social sciences across more than 50 disciplines.[1] It is made available online through the Web of Science service for a fee. The database records which articles are cited by other articles.



Criticism


Philip Altbach has criticised the Social Sciences Citation Index of favouring English-language journals generally and American journals specifically, while greatly underrepresenting journals in non-English languages.[2]


In 2004, economists Daniel B. Klein and Eric Chiang conducted a survey of the Social Sciences Citation Index and identified a bias against free market oriented research. In addition to an ideological bias, Klein and Chiang also identified several methodological deficiencies that encouraged the over-counting of citations, and they argue that the Social Sciences Citation Index does a poor job reflecting the relevance and accuracy of articles.[3]



See also


  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index

  • Science Citation Index


References




  1. ^ "Social Sciences Citation Index". Retrieved 2008-06-11. 


  2. ^ Altbach, Philip (2005). "Academic Challenges: The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective". The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession. Dortrecht: Springer. pp. 147–165. 


  3. ^ Daniel Klein and Eric Chiang. The Social Science Citation Index: A Black Box—with an Ideological Bias? Econ Journal Watch, Volume 1, Number 1, April 2004, pp 134–165.




External links


  • Official website




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