Social Sciences Citation Index

Science Citation Index

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Producer	Clarivate Analytics (Canada and Hong Kong)
History	1972; 52 years ago (1972)
Coverage
Disciplines	Social sciences
Record depth	Index & citation indexing
Links
Website	clarivate.com/ssci
Title list(s)	mjl.clarivate.com/home?PC=SS

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. The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index which indexes over 3,400 journals across 58 social science disciplines – 1985 to present, and it has 122 million cited references – 1900 to present. It also includes a range of 3,500 selected items from some of the world's finest scientific and technical journals. It has a range of useful search functions such as 'cited reference searching', searching by author, subject, or title.^[1] Whilst the Social Sciences Citation Index provides extensive support in bibliographic analytics and research, a number of academic scholars have expressed criticisms relating to ideological bias and its English-dominant publishing nature.