The
Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal
literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals
across 50 social sciences disciplines, and it indexes individually selected,
relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical
journals.
Some of the disciplines covered include: Anthropology,
History, Industrial Relations, Information Science and Library Science, Law,
Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, Public
Health, Social Issues, Social Work, Sociology, Substance Abuse, Urban Studies,
and Women's Studies.
As of January 1992, SSCI contains searchable,
full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60% of the
articles in the index.
