scopus.com
Scopus
Who runs Scopus, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic citation database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- OpenAlex
Measured from Scopus’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Scopus01 · 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
We couldn’t read scopus.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Scopus
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Scopus, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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: 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 - 02
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.
Very close - 03
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 - 04
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
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database of biomedical research
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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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online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
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Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
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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
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
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UpToDate
medical software company
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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
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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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Making sure you're not a bot!
legal database
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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.
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American website specializing in legal information retrieval
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Quote Investigator® – Tracing Quotations
website
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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.
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academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences
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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
What changed
Price and policy 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
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
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 46 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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56310681ffce52d-TXL
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX scopus-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-206.awsdns-25.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=r6QOLISmLUkMTZdcNGAb56lfuelddXTqpT9Z7…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on scopus.com 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on scopus.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on scopus.com 5/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on scopus.com 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on scopus.com 4/20
- Atlassian · not on scopus.com 4/20
- jQuery · not on scopus.com 4/20
- OneTrust · not on scopus.com 4/20
- Vue.js · not on scopus.com 3/20
- Zendesk · not on scopus.com 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on scopus.com 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on scopus.com 3/20