Social Sciences Citation Index
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The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and analyzes scholarly literature across the social sciences to support research evaluation and discovery.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Social Sciences Citation Index canonical | 12 |
| SSCI | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T738152 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Social Sciences Citation Index Context triple: [Econometrica, indexedIn, Social Sciences Citation Index]
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A.
Science Citation Index
The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and indexes scientific journal articles to measure research impact and facilitate literature discovery.
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B.
SSCI
SSCI is the abbreviation for the United States Senate committee responsible for overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies and activities.
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C.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
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D.
Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication that provides impact factors and other citation-based metrics to evaluate and compare academic journals across disciplines.
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E.
Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Social Sciences Citation Index Target entity description: The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and analyzes scholarly literature across the social sciences to support research evaluation and discovery.
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A.
Science Citation Index
The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and indexes scientific journal articles to measure research impact and facilitate literature discovery.
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B.
SSCI
SSCI is the abbreviation for the United States Senate committee responsible for overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies and activities.
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C.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
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D.
Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication that provides impact factors and other citation-based metrics to evaluate and compare academic journals across disciplines.
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E.
Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic database
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citation database ⓘ citation index ⓘ research database ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Social Sciences Citation Index
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
SSCI
|
| accessModel | subscription-based ⓘ |
| accessPlatform |
Web of Science
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surface form:
Web of Science platform
|
| audience |
librarians
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policy makers ⓘ research evaluators ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| coverage |
interdisciplinary social science research
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scholarly journals ⓘ social science disciplines ⓘ |
| discipline | social sciences ⓘ |
| feature |
author search
ⓘ
cited reference searching ⓘ institutional search ⓘ journal-level metrics ⓘ subject category classification ⓘ times cited counts ⓘ |
| field | social sciences ⓘ |
| formerlyProvidedBy |
Clarivate Analytics
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surface form:
Institute for Scientific Information
Thomson Reuters ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Web of Science ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| provider |
Clarivate Analytics
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surface form:
Clarivate
|
| subjectArea |
anthropology
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business ⓘ communication studies ⓘ economics ⓘ education ⓘ geography ⓘ law ⓘ management ⓘ political science ⓘ psychology ⓘ public administration ⓘ social work ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| supportsMetric |
citation counts
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h-index calculations ⓘ journal impact factor ⓘ |
| tracks |
citations
ⓘ
references ⓘ scholarly articles ⓘ |
| use |
citation analysis
ⓘ
impact assessment ⓘ literature discovery ⓘ research evaluation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Social Sciences Citation Index Description of subject: The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary citation database that tracks and analyzes scholarly literature across the social sciences to support research evaluation and discovery.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Social Sciences Citation Index
→
abbreviation
→
Social Sciences Citation Index
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
SSCI
subject surface form:
Institute for Scientific Information
subject surface form:
Institute for Scientific Information
subject surface form:
Institute for Scientific Information