Alternatives and competitors

Sites like SciELO Brasil

The 20 closest open access scholarly database alternatives to SciELO Brasil, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to SciELO Brasil? The closest matches are Palácio do Planalto, Jusbrasil and www.gov.br. 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.

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01 · Entity

About SciELO Brasil

SciELO Brasil scielo.br

Brazil

Wikidata: digital library

Top 10K · #5,225 English 8 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit SciELO Brasil

Summary by Claude

SciELO Brazil is an open access digital library and bibliographic database that hosts full-text articles from Brazilian peer-reviewed scientific journals, with journal listings, search and research press releases.

Who it’s for
Researchers, academics, students and librarians
Business model
Publicly funded nonprofit

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to SciELO Brasil’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

ZenodoLetras.mus.brPLOSJSTOREurope PubMed CentralUSPScienceDirectUOLwww.gov.brJusbrasil

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to SciELO Brasil

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to SciELO Brasil, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Palácio do Planalto planalto.gov.br Top 10K

    Acesso Negado!

    palace in Brasília, Brazil

  2. 02
    Jusbrasil jusbrasil.com.br Top 10K Portuguese

    Jusbrasil

    Brazilian company

  3. 03
    www.gov.br Top 1K English

    Home — Planalto

    country in South America

  4. 04
    UOL uol.com.br Top 1K Portuguese

    UOL - Seu universo online

    UOL, a maior empresa brasileira de conteúdo, serviços digitais e tecnologia com vários canais de jornalismo e diversas soluções para você ou seu negócio.

  5. 05
    ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K English

    ScienceDirect

    journal

  6. 06
    USP usp.br Top 10K Portuguese

    # USP – Universidade de São Paulo # – Universidade pública, autarquia ligada à Secretaria de Estado de Ensino Superior de São Paulo

    public state university in Brazil

  7. 07
    Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org Top 10K English

    database of biomedical research

  8. 08
    JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    distributor of eBooks and other digital media

  9. 09
    PLOS plos.org Top 10K English

    Leading the future of open science publishing - PLOS

    Discover how we are transforming scholarly publishing with a mission-driven commitment to open science, research integrity, and innovation that benefits researchers, institutions, and society worldwide.

  10. 10
    De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English

    De Gruyter Brill

    De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

  11. 11
    Letras.mus.br letras.mus.br Top 10K

    Brazilian lyrics database

  12. 12
    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

    Zenodo

    research data repository

  13. 13
    clickpetroleoegas.com.br Top 10K Portuguese

    CPG Click Petróleo e Gás | Vagas e Notícias

    Notícias sobre vagas de emprego, energia, petróleo, offshore, construção civil, usinas, renováveis, economia, tecnologia, automotivo, mineração, indústria naval, marítimo, portos, estaleiros, Petrobras, sua região e microeconomia no CPG Click Petróleo e Gás

  14. 14
    Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English

    Our World in Data

    Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

  15. 15
    Terra terra.com.br Top 10K Portuguese

    Terra - Seu Portal de Notícias, Diversão, Esportes e Vida e Estilo

    Acompanhe no Terra as últimas notícias do Brasil e do mundo sobre Entretenimento, Esportes, Tecnologia, Saúde, Horóscopo, Receitas e muito mais

  16. 16
    OLX olx.com.br Top 10K English

    online marketplace

  17. 17
    Alura alura.com.br Top 10K Portuguese

    Black November Alura: matricule-se com até 50% de desconto!

    A Black November da Alura chegou! Aproveite o maior desconto do ano para se matricular e avançar na sua carreira tech!

  18. 18

    Brazilian daily newspaper

  19. 19
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

    Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

    Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

  20. 20
    Globo.com globo.com Top 1K Portuguese

    globo.com - Absolutamente tudo sobre notícias, esportes e entretenimento

    Últimas notícias do jornalismo, esporte, entretenimento e mais! Na globo.com você acompanha tudo que está acontecendo hoje no Brasil e no mundo.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to scielo.br’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones SciELO Brasil uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What SciELO Brasil is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CMS
CSS & UI
  • Bootstrap asset https://www.scielo.br/static/css/bootstrap.css?v=1.1.34
Analytics
Security
  • reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
CDN
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

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