Social Science Computer Review

Discipline	Social science
Language	English
Edited by	Stephen M. Lyon
Publication details
History	1983-present
Publisher	SAGE Publications on behalf of the Social Science Computing Association
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	3.253 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0894-4393 (print) 1552-8286 (web)
LCCN	88649155
OCLC no.	470334995
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Social Science Computer Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the use of computers in the field of social science, including artificial intelligence, computer simulation, and electronic modelling. The founding editors-in-chief were G. Garson (North Carolina State University) and Ronald Anderson (University of Minnesota). The current editor-in-chief (from 2020) is Stephen M. Lyon (Aga Khan University). It was established in 1983 and is published by SAGE Publications in association with the Social Science Computing Association.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus^[1] and the Social Sciences Citation Index.^[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 3.253, ranking it 20th out of 105 journals in the category "Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications",^[3] 2nd out of 98 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary",^[4] and 14th out of 88 journals in the category "Information Science & Library Science".^[5]