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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 128 ms
01 · Entity
About SciELO Brasil
SciELO Brasil scielo.br
Brazil
Wikidata: digital library
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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to SciELO Brasil
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to SciELO Brasil, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Home — Planalto
country in South America
Very close cos 0.911 - 02
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.903 - 03
database of biomedical research
Very close cos 0.901 - 04
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.902 - 05
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.
Very close cos 0.897 - 06
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.899 - 07
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close cos 0.896 - 08
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Very close cos 0.895 - 09
online marketplace
Very close cos 0.897 - 10
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.
Close cos 0.893 - 11
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Close cos 0.892 - 12
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close cos 0.888 - 13
Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals
Open access publisher of peer-reviewed scientific articles across the entire spectrum of academia. Research network for academics to stay up-to-date with the latest scientific publications, events, blogs and news.
Close cos 0.888 - 14
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.888 - 15
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Close cos 0.886 - 16
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Close cos 0.885 - 17
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.
- Google Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Fonts
- Google Tag Manager
Close cos 0.884 - 18
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Close cos 0.885 - 19
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Close cos 0.884 - 20
American multinational technology company
Close cos 0.883
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
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://www.scielo.br/static/css/bootstrap.css?v=1.1.34
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- bunny.net header server: BunnyCDN-DE1-1333
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=iLAqkEAaJKwxZkyzxPXJ5qQHRMSSL0jFTSOBqvynksE
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what SciELO Brasil adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on scielo.br 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on scielo.br 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on scielo.br 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on scielo.br 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on scielo.br 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on scielo.br 7/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- SendGrid · not on scielo.br 4/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on scielo.br 4/20
- Apple Business · not on scielo.br 3/20
- Atlassian · not on scielo.br 3/20
- OpenAI · not on scielo.br 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on scielo.br 3/20
- Google Analytics 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on scielo.br 3/20