使用SSCI测度中国社会科学国际产出的问题探讨

Discussion on the Application of SSCI to Measure the International Output of Chinese Social Sciences

文章对SSCI用来测度中国社会科学国际产出的可行性进行论证,并基于数据库实证,指出数据库存在的文献收录偏差和学科偏差问题及其处理对策,对当前SSCI使用过程中所忽视的数据源问题进行了深刻揭示。尽管存在类型多样性和语言地方性的质疑以及受到新兴数据库的冲击,SSCI仍是测度中国社会科学国际产出较为理想的数据库。从论文整体和高影响力论文两个视角,都证实了SSCI文献收录的偏差问题。WC学科类别体系在成为SSCI优势的同时,也存在学科认知差异和学科类别交叉问题。作为理想的计量工具,在使用SSCI时,更应关注对源刊的分析,并有针对性地或通过文献聚类方法,进行更细致的学科层面的研究。

This paper aims to argue the feasibility of measuring the international outputs of Chinese social sciences by SSCI, and empirically points out the deviation in the coverage and categories of the database to reveal the problems overlooked in the process of using SSCI. Although questioned for the type diversity and localization in language and challenged by emerging databases, SSCI is also an ideal database to represent the international outputs in Chinese so- cial sciences. The paper also confirms the recording deviations from the both perspectives of the whole database and high cited papers. There are cognitive differences and categories cross in the WC disciplinary classification, although it is a unique advantage of SSCI database. Using the SSCI database, which is an ideal tool in the bibilometrics on the so- cial sciences, we should pay more attentions to the source journals and specially carry on the research on disciplinary level by documents clustering methods.