The author of the present article has tried to critically examine the relationship between the hermeneutical philosophical tradition and the nature of the social sciences within the framework of Ricoeur s philosophical system....

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the publication output and citation impact of social sciences in Malaysia based on Social Science Citation Index(SSCI) data for the period 1999-2008. Besides the analysis of trends in publication and citation...

on Iranian and Malaysian social sciences publication during 1991- 2008 as a case study.

Findings- The result indicates that the differences in rankings for measures of publication output, citation distribution, and mean observed citation rate are large...