2011, 31(6): 102-106.
This paper selects those theses of data mining recorded in CSSCI during the course of 1998 to 2009, makes bibliometric analysis from the angle of year distribution, journal distribution, author distribution, institution distribution, fund projects distribution, subject distribution, keywords distribution etc. As it concluded, the research on data mining in social science area has been becoming a developing stage from initial exploration, and has been infiltrating into other subjects. Now, some of nuclear authors and leading research institutions have been coming. All kinds of institutions attach more importance to data mining research, and the subject distribution of data mining is becoming wider more and more. At last, the paper points out data mining research trends in social science area with the method of keywords analysis.