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Scopus

Who runs Scopus, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic citation database alternatives.

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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
In English

02 · Privacy

What Scopus tracks

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03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Scopus

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20 of the 60 sites closest to Scopus match.

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

  1. 01
    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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  2. 02
    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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  3. 03
    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.

    Compare The Lens with Scopus →
  4. 04
    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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  5. 05
    econlit.org English 1 tracker

    EconLit

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  6. 06
    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。

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  7. 07
    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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    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。

    Compare Wanfang Data with Scopus →
  9. 09
    Scholarpedia Journal scholarpedia.org No trackers

    peer-reviewed open-access journal

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  10. 10
    JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    distributor of eBooks and other digital media

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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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    ORCID orcid.org Top 10K English No trackers

    ORCID

    non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers

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  13. 13
    UpToDate uptodate.com English No trackers

    UpToDate

    medical software company

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    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

    Compare EBSCO Information Services with Scopus →
  15. 15
    WARC warc.com English 2 trackers

    WARC | Marketing Effectiveness

    WARC provides insight, intelligence, evidence, expertise, case studies, benchmarks and guidance to help marketers navigate any challenge with confidence.

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  16. 16
    Metal Archives metal-archives.com Top 10K 1 tracker

    Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives

    website on heavy metal bands

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  17. 17
    British and Irish Legal Information Institute bailii.org English No trackers

    Making sure you're not a bot!

    legal database

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  18. 18
    WorldCat worldcat.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare WorldCat with Scopus →
  19. 19
    Google google.com Top 100 German No trackers

    Google

    search engine by Google LLC

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  20. 20
    Encyclopedia.com encyclopedia.com English 3 trackers

    Encyclopedia.com | Free Online Encyclopedia

    Encyclopedia.com – Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.

    Compare Encyclopedia.com with Scopus →

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

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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
9,197
Vector
384-d
Query
52 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Scopus’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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