Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Elsevier
The 20 closest academic publishing alternatives to Elsevier, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 21 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Elsevier? The closest matches are ScienceDirect, Scopus and De Gruyter Brill. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 14 ms
01 · Entity
About Elsevier
Elsevier elsevier.com
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.
Wikidata: Dutch publishing and analytics company
Summary by Claude
Elsevier is an academic publisher of scientific, technical and medical journals and books. It also offers research databases and analytics tools such as ScienceDirect, Scopus and SciVal, and clinical decision support and nursing education products such as ClinicalKey and Sherpath.
- Who it’s for
- Researchers, clinicians, students, librarians and institutions
- Business model
- Subscriptions, publishing fees and book sales
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Elsevier’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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Elsevier
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Elsevier, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.942 - 02
online bibliographic database
Very close cos 0.920 - 03
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.904 - 04
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close cos 0.898 - 05
Content Blocked
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers and related content
Very close cos 0.894 - 06
Browse
book publishing imprint descended in part from J. B. Lippincott & Co. and Lea Brothers
Close cos 0.891 - 07
medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences
medRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Close cos 0.890 - 08
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Close cos 0.890 - 09
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
Close cos 0.886 - 10 Close cos 0.881
- 11
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Close cos 0.881 - 12
EurekAlert! Science News Releases
EurekAlert! is an online science news service featuring health, medicine, science and technology news from leading research institutions and universities. Sponsored by AAAS, the science society.
- Google Search Console
- Microsoft 365
- New Relic
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Apache HTTP Server
- Font Awesome
Close cos 0.882 - 13
Homepage - Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press moves knowledge and learning forward. Discover our products, services, and latest thinking in education and research.
Close cos 0.879 - 14
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Close cos 0.881 - 15
online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Close cos 0.879 - 16
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 cos 0.877 - 17
open repository of academic articles
Close cos 0.879 - 18
database of biomedical research
Close cos 0.878 - 19
bioRxiv.org - the preprint server for Biology
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Close cos 0.877 - 20
Elastic: The search database for AI | Search, AI agents, Observability, and Security | Elastic
Powered by Elasticsearch. Ready to deploy your data? Start free.
Close cos 0.875
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to elsevier.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Elsevier uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Elsevier is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Contentful page source: images.ctfassets.net
- JavaScript frameworks
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- A/B testing
- Optimizely page source: cdn.optimizely.com/js/
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=9FCE4112EB787CD5C093D21440A26AAADA8795CC595228390…
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: js-agent.newrelic.com
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: q4iTaMeBRru-iqhkEIy4L3RO-pN2w6cLbhFqLD2DSGqQUXjbp81vlg==
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630184dd511f5f-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX elsevier-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=fd4fae74b683e6e22ef9b491871ae9f0faf7856b8…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=odC4tPPBA9tfwRYZ
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=2ckcJUmjEfh8TAauQPrWb9eLXpM1UyNHPk+6Smz…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=TFg-WBaiAzAnuVe3NQWd5w
- DocuSign TXT docusign=03cc2f9a-2d0c-447d-a53e-3c338663a134
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=wdnalEYcxFUtWlljYLJxa2opTtWpioNALCXb4…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 0-8Ig3YtfzbeUxQdZ-TM_y8P_se41D4JrW3e0o8xgdk
- Miro TXT miro-verification=edd5a54fc20add96505c5c718975977b28f370a9
- Webex TXT webexdomainverification.=96e50b81-a860-4869-950c-a88d03a437d5
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_QUhGAoG3QcWg0JPH4Po2kw
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Elsevier adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on elsevier.com 10/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on elsevier.com 8/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- OneTrust 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on elsevier.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on elsevier.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on elsevier.com 6/20
- Font Awesome · not on elsevier.com 5/20
- Salesforce · not on elsevier.com 5/20
- Adobe 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on elsevier.com 5/20