Alternatives and competitors
Sites like ScienceDirect
The 20 closest academic publishing database alternatives to ScienceDirect, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to ScienceDirect? The closest matches are Elsevier, Springer Science+Business Media and Nature. 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
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com
ScienceDirect
Wikidata: journal
Summary by Claude
ScienceDirect is Elsevier's online database of peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical journal articles and book chapters, offering full-text access by subscription, institutional license or per-article purchase, plus open access content.
- Who it’s for
- Researchers, academics, students, and institutional libraries
- Business model
- Subscriptions and article sales
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to ScienceDirect’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 ScienceDirect
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ScienceDirect, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read sciencedirect.com’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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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.
Very close cos 0.942 - 02
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close cos 0.924 - 03
Nature
First published in 1869, Nature is the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. Nature publishes the finest peer-reviewed research that drives ground-breaking discovery, and is read by thought-leaders and decision-makers around the world.
Very close cos 0.922 - 04
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.919 - 05
online bibliographic database
Very close cos 0.914 - 06
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.917 - 07
online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Very close cos 0.911 - 08
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.
Very close cos 0.912 - 09
academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Very close cos 0.912 - 10 Very close cos 0.908
- 11
database of biomedical research
Very close cos 0.906 - 12
Content Blocked
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers and related content
Very close cos 0.906 - 13
academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences
Very close cos 0.904 - 14
Brazil
digital library
Very close cos 0.903 - 15
publisher of open-access scientific journals
Very close cos 0.902 - 16
digital journal platform
Very close cos 0.902 - 17
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
Very close cos 0.900 - 18
peer-reviewed medical journal
Very close cos 0.901 - 19
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.
- Microsoft 365
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Apache HTTP Server
- Font Awesome
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Fonts
Very close cos 0.901 - 20
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close cos 0.899
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to sciencedirect.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones ScienceDirect uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What ScienceDirect is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f8261809806c-TXL
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX sciencedirect-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS elmo.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=y-pxBHDcjJk617gDyE7Tn_Gaxd9CiRc2tfts5…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what ScienceDirect adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on sciencedirect.com 17/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- Atlassian · not on sciencedirect.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on sciencedirect.com 7/20
- Salesforce · not on sciencedirect.com 7/20
- OneTrust · not on sciencedirect.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on sciencedirect.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on sciencedirect.com 6/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on sciencedirect.com 5/20
- Adobe · not on sciencedirect.com 4/20
- Apple Business · not on sciencedirect.com 4/20
- DocuSign · not on sciencedirect.com 4/20
- Fastly · not on sciencedirect.com 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on sciencedirect.com 4/20