Q: Are papers on humanities and social sciences better preferred by SSCI?
My paper is from the field of humanities and social sciences. Does it necessarily mean that my paper should be submitted to SSCI? Are there any preferences for journal editors?
The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a citation index product of Clarivate Analytics and covers around 3000 academic journals across 50 disciplines in the field of social sciences. You cannot submit your paper directly to the SSCI database but you can submit it to a journal indexed in that database.
Journals indexed in the ISI Web of Science database (which includes SSCI) are described as the world’s leading journals and therefore publishing in such reputed journals is considered a big milestone in the research journey. Sometimes university guidelines also require researchers to publish in journals indexed in specific databases. Publishing in indexed journals can increase the visibility of your research paper and thus increase its readership. You can check your university’s guidelines and find out which indexing databases they prefer.
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