''Social Science Computer Review'' is a

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that covers the use of computers in the field of

social science Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of s ...

, including

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech ...

computer simulation Computer simulation is the process of mathematical modelling, performed on a computer, which is designed to predict the behaviour of, or the outcome of, a real-world or physical system. The reliability of some mathematical models can be deter ...

, and electronic modelling. The founding

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were G. Garson (

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) and Ronald Anderson (

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

). The current

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(from 2020) is Stephen M. Lyon (

Aga Khan University Aga Khan University is a non-profit institution and an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. It was Founded in 1983 as Pakistan's first private university. Starting in 2000, the university expanded to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the Unite ...

). It was established in 1983 and is published by

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in association with the Social Science Computing Association.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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and the

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. According to the ''

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'', its 2017

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is 3.253, ranking it 20th out of 105 journals in the category "Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications", 2nd out of 98 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary", and 14th out of 88 journals in the category "Information Science & Library Science".

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal200948/title SAGE Publishing academic journals English-language journals Multidisciplinary social science journals Quarterly journals Publications established in 1983