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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to SciELO match.
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.
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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
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 - 03
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 - 04
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 05
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Very close - 06
peer-reviewed open-access journal
Very close - 07
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 - 08
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close - 09
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code
Very close - 10
维普网
维普官方网站-一站式学术资源检索平台，汇聚国内外期刊、会议论文、学位论文、专利、报纸等多元化学术资源，覆盖广泛学术领域，满足您各类学术需求；采用先进的智能检索技术，支持多维度检索，同时提供高级检索、专业检索等模式，满足不同用户的精细化需求；提供文献引证追踪、科学指标分析等功能，助用户洞悉学术脉络，把握研究前沿；支持在线阅读、一键下载等多种便捷功能，让用户随时随地享受学术盛宴。个性化设置功能，让学术空间更加贴合个人需求，提升科研效率。
Very close - 11
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 12
万方数据知识服务平台-科研学习全流程支持服务平台
万方数据知识服务平台与全球国内外30余家大型数据库集成商、出版商、公益机构达成战略合作，整合数亿条全球优质学术资源，集成期刊、学位、会议、专利、科技报告、成果、标准、法规、地方志、视频等十余种学术资源类型。平台基于先进的人工智能技术，打造涵盖资源发现、学术不端检测、学术分析、学科选题以及知识管理等领域的智能化平台与工具，为用户提供海量资源的统一检索发现和获取、学术科研的全流程服务，帮助用户精准的发现知识、便捷的获取知识、更愉悦的创造知识。
Very close - 13
EconLit
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Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
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Home - DBpedia Association
DBpedia provides a platform for data, tools and services. Explore current projects and applications and learn about DBpedia datasets.
Very close - 16
MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
Very close - 17
Making sure you're not a bot!
legal database
Very close - 18
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close - 19
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close - 20
WorldCat.org
WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 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