diff --git a/ci/code_checks.sh b/ci/code_checks.sh
index 1e9250fd77fe5..a1f8977b6b115 100755
--- a/ci/code_checks.sh
+++ b/ci/code_checks.sh
@@ -304,7 +304,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         -i "pandas.api.types.is_re PR07,SA01" \
         -i "pandas.api.types.is_re_compilable PR07,SA01" \
         -i "pandas.api.types.is_sparse SA01" \
-        -i "pandas.api.types.is_string_dtype SA01" \
         -i "pandas.api.types.is_timedelta64_ns_dtype SA01" \
         -i "pandas.api.types.pandas_dtype PR07,RT03,SA01" \
         -i "pandas.api.types.union_categoricals RT03,SA01" \
diff --git a/pandas/core/dtypes/common.py b/pandas/core/dtypes/common.py
index 7db3f8ecebf2a..cd1d5366d6a08 100644
--- a/pandas/core/dtypes/common.py
+++ b/pandas/core/dtypes/common.py
@@ -558,6 +558,11 @@ def is_string_dtype(arr_or_dtype) -> bool:
     boolean
         Whether or not the array or dtype is of the string dtype.
 
+    See Also
+    --------
+    api.types.is_string_dtype : Check whether the provided array or dtype
+                                is of the string dtype.
+
     Examples
     --------
     >>> from pandas.api.types import is_string_dtype