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OpenAlex vs Scopus
Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re very close.
OpenAlex is a free, open bibliographic database that indexes scholarly works along with their authors, institutions, journals and topics. It can be searched through a web app, an API and bulk data downloads.
Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scholarly literature, offering search, citation tracking, author profiles and research metrics.
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- Audience
- Smaller site
- Top 10K
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- Third-party embeds: Google Fonts
- Privacy-friendly analytics: Plausible
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Trackers are what each homepage loads before cookie consent; changes count since we started checking each site weekly. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.