scielo.org
SciELO
Who runs SciELO, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open access scholarly database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Part of bunny.net
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Redalyc
Measured from SciELO’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs SciELO
02 · Privacy
What SciELO tracks
We couldn’t read scielo.org’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to SciELO
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to SciELO, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read scielo.org’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc, Red de Revistas Científicas
Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc. Red de Revistas Científicas. Acceso abierto sin fines de lucro propiedad de la academia. Modelo de acceso abierto diamante.
Very close - 02 Latindex latindex.org
Regional Cooperative Online Information System for Scholarly Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal
Very close - 03
curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals
Very close - 04
Leading the future of open science publishing - PLOS
Discover how we are transforming scholarly publishing with a mission-driven commitment to open science, research integrity, and innovation that benefits researchers, institutions, and society worldwide.
Very close - 05
Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals
Open access publisher of peer-reviewed scientific articles across the entire spectrum of academia. Research network for academics to stay up-to-date with the latest scientific publications, events, blogs and news.
Very close - 06
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Very close - 07
website providing subscription-based access to a database of scientific and medical research
Very close - 08
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 09
database of biomedical research
Very close - 10
online bibliographic database
Very close - 11
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Very close - 12
peer-reviewed open-access journal
Very close - 13
Egyptian scientific publisher
Very close - 14
The Lens - Patent and Scholarly Search and Analysis
The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
Very close - 15
peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal
Very close - 16
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close - 17
publisher of open-access scientific journals
Very close - 18
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code
Very close - 19 Very close
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academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles SciELO’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones SciELO uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what SciELO 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 · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to SciELO’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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms13947846
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=drdDbtPCGYF9DZ2KjfgX3TOd_TcC8YkMAcoJbhdelTg
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ij7vl631i3qnbt0eq3x2lrzw4p1e9s
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 12/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on scielo.org 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on scielo.org 9/20
- Google Workspace 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on scielo.org 5/20
- Meta Business Suite 4/20
- Zendesk · not on scielo.org 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on scielo.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on scielo.org 3/20
- HubSpot · not on scielo.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on scielo.org 3/20
- AngularJS · not on scielo.org 2/20
- Azure DNS · not on scielo.org 2/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on scielo.org 2/20
- Atlassian · not on scielo.org 2/20