A useful method for measuring scientific output is to manage citations of peer-reviewed journals. For Englishs-speaking (and -writing) researchers this problem was mainly solved by huge databases that contain citations of electronical versions of articles. Hungarian databases however are not available due to the lack of digital journals. This makes hard to find citations for those who work on the fields of Hungarian-specific areas, e.g. history and social sciences. As there is no common solution for all kind of disciplines, we have to give place for smaller projects. Mathias, Database of Hungarian social science citations is one these projects that is organized by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office Library. The database contains citations of Hungarian authors from four journals and is planned to expanded to more periodicals. As of January 2013, Mathias contains more than 10 000 citations. Starting a new database like this raises many question, e.g. what type of data are necessary, what would be the ideal structure of the database, fees, access and the list of journals. We do hope that Mathias will be a successful new service and a fine example for other disciplines, too.