On April 25^th, Nanjing University China Social Science Research and Evaluation Center released the latest CSSCI Source Journals Catalogue (2021-2022 edition). Journal of Henan University (Social Science Edition) was once again included in CSSCI.

The Chinese Social Citation Index (CSSCI) covers over 500 scholarly Chinese journals in the humanities and social sciences. CSSCI provides an efficient tool for people to obtain information about Chinese social science research. Its CD-ROM disks have been manufactured and a Web site has been set up for people to search for information about it. In this article the authors introduce the goals, significance and functions of CSSCI and a detailed explanation of the data structure and the direction of data flow is provided.

Journal of henan university (social science edition) has a good academic reputation and academic influence in the field of social science periodicals as well as in the field of university journals. It is one of the CSSCI source journals, one of the national Chinese core journals and one of the Chinese core journals in the humanities and social sciences.