  The complexity of emergent wicked problems, such as climate change,
culminates in a reformulation of how we think about society and mobilize
scientists from various disciplines to seek solutions and perspectives on the
problem. From an epistemological point of view, it is essential to evaluate how
such topics can be developed inside the academic arena but, to do that, it is
necessary to perform complex analysis of the great number of recent academic
publications. In this work, we discuss how climate change has been addressed by
social sciences in practice. Can we observe the development of a new
epistemology by the emergence of the climate change debate? Are there
contributions in academic journals within the field of social sciences
addressing climate change? Which journals are these? Who are the authors? To
answer these questions, we developed an innovative method combining different
tools to search, filter, and analyze the impact of the academic production
related to climate change in social sciences in the most relevant journals.
