Scopus

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Scopus

Scopus scopus.com

Wikidata: online bibliographic database

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

Top 10K In English

02 · Privacy

What Scopus tracks

We can’t read scopus.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

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   OpenAlex openalex.org English No trackers

   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.

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   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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   • GlobalSign
   • Amazon Route 53
   • Amazon SES
   • Atlassian
   • Freshworks

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   The Lens lens.org English 1 tracker

   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.

   • Microsoft 365
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   ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K

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

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   Semantic Scholar semanticscholar.org Top 10K English 3 trackers

   Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool

   Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

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   econlit.org English 1 tracker

   EconLit

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   cnki.net Top 10K

   China's academic research database

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   Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org Top 10K English

   database of biomedical research

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   doaj.org

   curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals

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    cqvip.com English 1 tracker

    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。

    • GlobalSign
    • Baidu Analytics
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    • Vue.js

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    RePEc repec.org Top 10K No trackers

    RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code

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    Encyclopædia Britannica Online britannica.com Top 1K English

    online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica

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    SciELO scielo.org

    bibliographic database of open access journals

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    Wanfang Data wanfangdata.com.cn 1 tracker

    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。

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    Social Science Research Network ssrn.com Top 10K

    open access eLibrary; part of Elsevier

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    CourtListener.com courtlistener.com

    database of court documents maintained by the Free Law Project

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    Scholarpedia Journal scholarpedia.org No trackers

    peer-reviewed open-access journal

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    JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    distributor of eBooks and other digital media

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    • OpenAI

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    Statista statista.com Top 1K English 2 trackers

    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

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    proquest.com Top 10K

    set of journals

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Scopus’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Scopus uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

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

05 · Details

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