This is of course excellent news and several people should be tributed full  
praise for that. However, this doesn't solve the main problem with SSCI, namely, that as
long as few, or no, other HET journals are indexed, the number of citations counted by
SSCI is going to be very low and consequently also our journals' impact factor is going to
(largely undeservedly) suffer from that.
  
Though it may sound unscientific, cynical and provoking - but not so much after having
read some of the extensive literature on the limits of the impact factor - what about
following the trend so popular in many branches of the hard sciences and inviting HES
members who publish papers in SSCI-indexed journals to ALWAYS insert a handful of
citations from the last two years' HET journals in order to push up the latter's impact
factor? Or, la guerre comme a la guerre.
  
Nicola Giocoli