sciencedirect.com
ScienceDirect
Who runs ScienceDirect, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic publishing database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Taylor & Francis Online
Measured from ScienceDirect’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit ScienceDirect01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com
Wikidata: website providing subscription-based access to a database of scientific and medical research
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What ScienceDirect tracks
We couldn’t read sciencedirect.com’s homepage (HTTP 403), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to ScienceDirect
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ScienceDirect, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read sciencedirect.com’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
digital journal platform
Very close - 02
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 03
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close - 04
online bibliographic database
Very close - 05 cnki.net Top 10K
China's academic research database
Very close - 06 SciELO scielo.org
bibliographic database of open access journals
Very close - 07
Elsevier | A global leader for advanced information and decision support in science and healthcare
Elsevier provides advanced information and decision support to accelerate progress in science and healthcare worldwide.
Very close - 08
EconLit
Very close - 09
curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals
Very close - 10
database of biomedical research
Very close - 11
online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Very close - 12
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
Close - 13
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close - 14
peer-reviewed open-access journal
Very close - 15 proquest.com Top 10K
set of journals
Very close - 16
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 - 17
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
Very close - 18
Egyptian scientific publisher
Very close - 19
Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Very close - 20
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles ScienceDirect’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones ScienceDirect 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 ScienceDirect 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
- 29 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to ScienceDirect’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
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577176c0efae505-TXL
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX sciencedirect-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS elmo.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=HFLbkoXvVlFiyLnMm91Nto2Ywh56_e4VOrfGV…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on sciencedirect.com 13/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Atlassian · not on sciencedirect.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on sciencedirect.com 7/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- OneTrust · not on sciencedirect.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on sciencedirect.com 6/20
- Salesforce · not on sciencedirect.com 5/20
- Apple Business · not on sciencedirect.com 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on sciencedirect.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on sciencedirect.com 4/20
- OpenAI · not on sciencedirect.com 3/20
- Adobe · not on sciencedirect.com 3/20
- DocuSign · not on sciencedirect.com 3/20