The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database,
with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences.
It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines,
as well as covering individually selected, relevant items
from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

SSCI:
Averages 2,700 new records per week.
Includes approximately 50,500 new cited references per week.
Includes approximately 138 new cited references to patents each week.
As of January 1992, contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts
for approximately 60% of the articles in the database.

Some of the disciplines covered include:
Anthropology, History, Industrial Relations, Information Science & Library Science,
Law, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychiatry,  Political Science, Public Health,
Social Issues, Social Work, Sociology, Substance Abuse, Urban Studies, Women's Studies.