According to analytical report on CSSCI publishing among Chinese universities by China’s Ministry of Education, SHNU ranks 28^th for the total number of CSSCIS papers published in the year 2018. In Shanghai, SHNU ranks 4^th for the same item, only after East China Normal University, FudanUniversity, and ShanghaiJiaotongUniversity.

Last year, 476 papers have been published by SHNU authors: 26 papers from China Social Sciences, Literature Review and History Review, etc. Besides, 42 papers are published in SSCI and A&HCI.