About

Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

How to begin

Go to http://www.car.chula.ac.th/curef-db/

Subject Listing: Social Sciences

Then select Social Sciences Citation Index to access the database.

Search

Search panel will be displayed as homepage.

This function allows users to:

1. Search data with many terms in various fields, by setting related condition (AND, OR, NOT).

2. Limit results by Time span, Citation Databases (choose Social Sciences Citation Index), Search setting, and displayed Results Setting.

In example; I searched with terms “social movement” in topic field, then limit time span last 5 years, and choose only Social Sciences Citation Index due to I don’t interest in other subjects.

Search Results

From the example; 865 records are founded as search results.

On the left panel, users can Refine Results by:

1. Search within Results matching this term.
2. Select options in your focus at dropdown menu, including Web of Science Categories, Document Types, Research Areas, Authors, Group Authors, Editors, Source Titles, Book Series Titles, Publication Years, Organizations-Enhanced, Funding Agencies, Languages, and Countries/Territories.

***Every time users select options and click on the 'Refine' button, the list of results on the right area will be updated.***
3. Users can explore each record (result) by provided options, including:

- Find it @Chula - Link to all CU subscribed reference databases which hold this item.

- View abstract

- Full text (if available)

Moreover, users can click on the title of each record to access the Article's page and view more detail, such as source, DOI, time cited, accession number, address, publisher, research areas, IDS no., ISSN as the following picture.

On this Article's page, users can view ‘Citation Map’ of this targeted article.

Users can select freely Forward or/and Backward articles which cite the targeted article in 1 or 2 generation depth. The map will be displayed.

Export

When users select any option such as Print out / E-mail / EndNote / Other File Format / etc., an export manager will be displayed. Users have to select what you want to export [Author, Title, Source, Abstract, Cited References, or Full Record], before clicking on the 'Send' button.

The database allows users to export many records at once by mask records in desire from the list of Results, then click on 'Add to Masked List' and select an option for exporting.

In example; 3 records were masked, so the Masked List has been shown (3) after adding.

Other Search

The database provides other Search as following:
1. Author Search - Find the articles which match with Author's Name, Author’s Research Domain, and Author’s Organization.

2. Cited Reference Search - Find the articles by identify Cited Author, Cited Work, Cited Year, Cited Page, Cited Vol., Cited Issue, Cited Page, or Cited Title.

3. Structure Search - Enter a structure drawing and/or any desired data. Then click on either Search button to proceed your query.

4. Advanced Search - Use field tags, Boolean operators, parentheses, and query sets to create your query.