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[[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.<ref>{{cite book |last= Altbach|first=Philip |author-link= Philip Altbach |year=2005 |article=Academic Challenges: The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective |title=The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession |location=Dortrecht |publisher=Springer |pages=147–165 }}</ref> |
[[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.<ref>{{cite book |last= Altbach|first=Philip |author-link= Philip Altbach |year=2005 |article=Academic Challenges: The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective |title=The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession |location=Dortrecht |publisher=Springer |pages=147–165 }}</ref> Furthermore, academics such as June Yichun Liu have expressed similar criticisms stating only two percent of the SSCI academic publications come from developing nations thereby creating an artificial importance in countries such as Taiwan.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Liu |first=June Yichun |url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789462094079/BP000008.xml |title=Problems, Strategies, and Impact of SSCI Publication in English: Perceptions and Negotiations of Taiwanese Researchers |date=2014-01-01 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-94-6209-407-9 |language=en}}</ref> This artificial importance in Taiwan deems all scholarly work published in the SSCI as canonical and most other work immaterial thus affecting scholarships and funding of other scholarly research. Moreover, Liu suggests this will have some influence in research undertaken by scholars vastly affecting the types of subjects of research, ultimately limiting the scope of academic work. |
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Revision as of 09:11, 4 April 2022
| Producer | Clarivate Analytics (Canada and Hong Kong) |
|---|---|
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Social sciences |
| Record depth | Index & citation indexing |
| Links | |
| Website | https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/webofscience-ssci/ |
| Title list(s) | https://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 and indexes over 3,000 social sciences journals – 1985 to present, and it has 122 million cited references - 1900 to present.[1]
Overview
The SSCI citation database covers some 3,000 academic journals in the social sciences across more than 50 disciplines.[2] It is made available online through the Web of Science service for a fee. The database records which articles are cited by other articles.
The Master Journal List provides users with the ability to search for journals that have been indexed.
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.[3] Furthermore, academics such as June Yichun Liu have expressed similar criticisms stating only two percent of the SSCI academic publications come from developing nations thereby creating an artificial importance in countries such as Taiwan.[4] This artificial importance in Taiwan deems all scholarly work published in the SSCI as canonical and most other work immaterial thus affecting scholarships and funding of other scholarly research. Moreover, Liu suggests this will have some influence in research undertaken by scholars vastly affecting the types of subjects of research, ultimately limiting the scope of academic work.
See also
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- Science Citation Index
- Google Scholar
- List of academic databases and search engines
References
- ^ "SSCI – Social Sciences Citation Index (via the Web of Science)". Online Library | Maastricht University. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
- ^ "Social Sciences Citation Index". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ Altbach, Philip (2005). "Academic Challenges: The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective". The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession. Dortrecht: Springer. pp. 147–165.
- ^ Liu, June Yichun (2014-01-01). Problems, Strategies, and Impact of SSCI Publication in English: Perceptions and Negotiations of Taiwanese Researchers. Brill. ISBN 978-94-6209-407-9.
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