The Institute of Information Science of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) is an information think tank specializing in information studies on major strategies and social sciences. There are also 3 information platforms affliated to our institute: the Silk Road Information Network, the Yangtze River Economic Network, and UNPAN-AP (the United Nations Public Administration Network- The Asia& Pacific Center) as well as one bi-annual forum “Global City Informatization Forum” (hosted since 2012).

Founded in October 1978, this institute was formerly named as“The Institute of Academic Information”, and renamed as the Institute of Information Science in December 1992. Now there are 40 faculty members, including 4 research fellows and 11 associate research fellows.

As Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences was selected as one of the 25 national high-end think tanks in 2016, the Institute of Information put its top mission of “building a first class socialist think tank with international reputation” by focusing on studies on major national strategies and optimizing discipline allocation and research team building. The institute is engaged in reshaping its blueprint with studies on critical strategic information as its pillar; database construction as its platform; and various forums and think tank reports as its academic products.

The Institute is composed of 6 research Groups (including World Socialist Research Group, Information Security Research Group,Innovation Research Group, City Informatization Research Group,Big Data Research Group and Yangtze River Economic Belt Research Group) and 3 research centers( including “the Belt and Road”Information Research Center, Center of Internet Research, and Center for International Socialism).

The Institute publishes a variety of journals and think tank reports includingStudies on Foreign Social Sciences(since 1958),World Socialism Research Trends(since 2008),World Socialism Research Yearbook(since 2012),China Cyberspace Security Blue Book”(since2015),Blue Book of Global Digital Economy Development(since 2017),The Belt and Road Research Report(since 2017),Research on the Yangtze River Economic Belt(since 2017), andInternational Research Trends of Internet(since 2017).

The Institute of Information Science is habilitated to deliver master degrees in Information Science, Scientific Socialism and International Communist Movement, Cyberspace Governance and has doctoral program co-operated with the Institute of Applied Economics and the Institute of Chinese Marxism.

信息研究所是上海社會科學院負責重大戰(zhàn)略信息和社科學術信息匯集、分析的專業(yè)研究所，負責承建“絲路信息網”、“長江經濟網”兩大專業(yè)數(shù)據庫和“聯(lián)合國公共行政網”（亞太地區(qū)），承辦兩年一屆的“全球城市信息化論壇”（2012年起承辦）。

信息研究所成立于1978年10月，原名“學術情報研究所”，1992年12月更為現(xiàn)名?，F(xiàn)有在編人員40人，其中研究員4名、副研究員11名。

2016年，在上海社會科學院入選25家國家高端智庫建設試點單位的背景下，信息研究所緊緊圍繞“建設國內一流、國際知名的社會主義新智庫”這一發(fā)展目標，圍繞黨和國家的重大戰(zhàn)略布局，優(yōu)化學科配置和隊伍建設，努力建設以重大戰(zhàn)略情報信息研究為重點，以專業(yè)大數(shù)據庫建設為依托，以各類論壇、智庫報告為發(fā)布載體的新型情報信息研究體系。

設有6個研究室和3個院屬研究中心。研究室有：世界社會主義研究室、信息安全研究室、科技創(chuàng)新研究室、城市信息化研究室、大數(shù)據研究室、長江經濟帶研究室。院屬研究中心有：“一帶一路”信息研究中心、互聯(lián)網研究中心、國外社會主義研究中心。

擁有多種刊物和智庫報告。包括：《國外社會科學前沿》（1958年創(chuàng)刊）、《世界社會主義研究動態(tài)》（2008年創(chuàng)刊）、《世界社會主義研究年鑒》（2012年創(chuàng)刊）、《中國網絡空間安全藍皮書》（2015年創(chuàng)刊）、《全球數(shù)字經濟發(fā)展藍皮書》（2017年創(chuàng)刊）、《一帶一路研究要報》（2017年創(chuàng)刊）、《長江經濟帶研究要報》（2017年創(chuàng)刊）、《國際互聯(lián)網研究動向》（2017年創(chuàng)刊）等。

信息研究所現(xiàn)擁有情報學、科學社會主義與國際共產主義運動史、網絡空間治理專業(yè)等碩士學位授予權，并與本院的應用經濟研究所、中國馬克思主義研究所合作培養(yǎng)產業(yè)經濟學、馬克思主義中國化等領域的博士生。