Welcome to our Chinese Social Sciences Research Evaluation Center!

In 1997, Nanjing University took the lead in putting forward the development of Chinese Social Science Citation Index program, abbreviated as CSSCI. In 2000, the university established Chinese Social Sciences Research Evaluation Center for the further development of CSSCI program.

The center is also a national research base integrating functions of education, research and application. It consists of a project department, a consultation dept., a technology dept. as well as quality control and administration departments. Prof. Zhou Xian serves as the dean of the center. The whole staff includes 11 full-time and part-time researchers and 15 database developers and administrators. Professor Zhou Xian is the director of the center. The center mainly engages in the research and evaluation of social science, database development and network software research and development.

In 2001, Chinese Social Science Citation Index Advisory Committee (CSSCIAC) was founded under the instruction of the Ministry of Education. The committee consists of experts from 17 well-known universities. With the guidance of the Ministry of Education and CSSCIAC, along with the support from two doctoral programs of the Informatics and the Library science of Nanjing university, our center has developed the CSSCI database and conducted several significant projects including one national project, one key project of the Ministry of Education, one key project of Jiangsu province, and one cooperative project with Hong Kong and Taiwan. To date, the center has developed the CSSCI database for social science studies during the past eight years (1998-2005), which is available through the internet. We have also published three volumes of Research and Evaluation Standard for Chinese Social Science – Statistical Study in the Citation of Dissertation, Essay and Journal.

The success of CSSCI has attracted much attention. The Ministry of Education, in its NO. 1 Document of 2003, clearly stated the importance of building up a scientific and fair evaluation system and the urgency to speed up the development of a “Chinese Social Science Citation Index” system. Thus we are striving to develop CSSCI in order to build up a scientific and fair research and evaluation system for Chinese social science.

You are welcome to contact us for further information.

Address: 22 Hankou Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P. R. C.
The Research and Evaluation Center of Chinese Social Science, Nanjing University

Zip Code: 210093

Tax:(86-25)83595841

Phone: (86-25)83595841

Website: http://www.cssci.com.cn or http://cssci.nju.edu.cn