Social Science History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal.

Its articles bring an analytic, theoretical, and often quantitative approach to historical evidence.

Its editors-in-chief are Anne McCants (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Kris Inwood of Guelph University.

[5] The Social Science History Association invited bids from publishers and told the Duke University Press in June 2012 of its intent to end the agreement for the press to publish Social Science History.

Duke asserted it owned the title of the journal, though not the copyright for its contents.