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Elsevier

Who runs Elsevier, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic publishing alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
Springer Nature

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Elsevier

Elsevier elsevier.com

Elsevier provides advanced information and decision support to accelerate progress in science and healthcare worldwide.

Wikidata: Dutch publishing and analytics company

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Elsevier tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

3 of the 13 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.

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OneTrust
US company
2 tools
  • A/B testing

    Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.

  • Privacy-friendly analytics

    Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Elsevier

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Fewer trackers than ElsevierNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Springer Nature springernature.com 3 trackers

    Springer Nature

    We are a global publisher dedicated to providing the best possible service to the whole research community. We help authors to share their discoveries; enable researchers to find, access and understand the work of others and support librarians and institutions with innovations in technology and data.

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  2. 02
    Sage Publishing sagepub.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Sage - a global academic publisher of educational resources | Home

    Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and digital resources to support teaching, learning and research

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  3. 03
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

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  4. 04
    Wiley-VCH wiley.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Wiley-VCH - Home

    Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing

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  5. 05
    Wolters Kluwer wolterskluwer.com

    global information services company

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  6. 06
    thieme.com English No trackers

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    journal

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  7. 07
    lww.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Browse

    book publishing imprint descended in part from J. B. Lippincott & Co. and Lea Brothers

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  8. 08
    De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    De Gruyter Brill

    De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

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  9. 09
    Cambridge University Press and Assessment cambridge.org Top 1K English

    non-teaching department of the University of Cambridge

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  10. 10
    Routledge routledge.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Routledge - Publisher of Professional & Academic Books

    Routledge is a leading book publisher that fosters human progress through knowledge for scholars, instructors and professionals

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    Taylor & Francis taylorandfrancis.com English 2 trackers

    Taylor & Francis – Fostering human progress through knowledge

    Taylor & Francis publishes knowledge and specialty research spanning humanities, social sciences, science and technology, engineering, medicine and healthcare.

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  12. 12
    proquest.com Top 10K

    set of journals

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  13. 13
    MDPI mdpi.com Top 1K

    publisher of open-access scientific journals

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  14. 14
    Clarivate clarivate.com English 4 trackers

    Clarivate - Leading Global Transformative Intelligence

    Clarivate aims to fuel the world's greatest breakthroughs through enriched data, insights, analytics, workflow solutions and expert services. Find out more.

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  15. 15
    Taylor & Francis Online tandfonline.com Top 1K English

    digital journal platform

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  16. 16
    ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K

    website providing subscription-based access to a database of scientific and medical research

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  17. 17
    oup.com Top 1K English 2 trackers

    Homepage - Oxford University Press

    Oxford University Press moves knowledge and learning forward. Discover our products, services, and latest thinking in education and research.

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  18. 18
    Dimensions dimensions.ai English 1 tracker

    Dimensions AI | The most advanced scientific research database

    From idea to impact: Quickly navigate and connect grants, publications, datasets, clinical trials, patents, and policy documents.

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  19. 19
    Cengage Group cengage.com

    commercial publisher of textbooks, educational software, and training programs

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  20. 20
    EBSCO Information Services ebsco.com Top 10K English No trackers

    EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery Service

    EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Elsevier adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 21 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
39 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Elsevier’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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