"[2] The association's official journal is Social Science History, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic publication.
[4][5] The journal's articles that are most-accessed and cited through JSTOR are about social and political movements and associated narratives.
[6][7] The association was formed in 1976 as an interdisciplinary group with a journal Social Science History and an annual convention.
However, by the 1980s critics complained that quantification undervalued the role of contingency and warned against naive positivism.
Meanwhile, quantification became well-established inside economics in the field of cliometrics, as well as in political science.