Journals Supporting Terrorism Research: Identification and Investigation into Their Impact on the Social Sciences

Daryl R. Bullis is Bibliographer for Music, Russian & East European Studies, and Slavic Languages & Literatures and Richard D. Irving is Bibliographer for Public Administration & Policy and Political Science, both at University at Albany, SUNY; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. The authors gratefully acknowledge Benjamin Andrus, Binghamton University, for sharing his expertise in using the Web of Science database.” © 2013 Daryl R. Bullis and Richard D. Irving, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC A citation analysis of two preeminent terrorism journals (Terrorism and Political Violence and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism) was used to identify 37 additional social science journals of significant importance to terrorism research. Citation data extracted from the Web of Science database was used to investigate the impact of the two journals on the social science journal literature. The impact of the two journals was also analyzed in terms of SSCI subject categories. This study could provide useful information for collection development librarians interested in the social sciences.