Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Scopus
The 20 closest academic citation database alternatives to Scopus, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Scopus? The closest matches are Elsevier, ScienceDirect and Semantic Scholar. 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
- 23 ms
01 · Entity
About Scopus
Scopus scopus.com
Wikidata: online bibliographic database
Summary by Claude
Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scholarly literature, offering search, citation tracking, author profiles and research metrics.
- Who it’s for
- Researchers, universities, librarians, research institutions
- Business model
- Institutional subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
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). 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 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.
- 01
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 0.920 - 02
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.914 - 03
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.
Very close cos 0.897 - 04
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 0.895 - 05
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.895 - 06 Close cos 0.892
- 07
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Close cos 0.891 - 08
Studocu - Access Blocked
On Studocu you find all the lecture notes, summaries and study guides you need to pass your exams with better grades.
Close cos 0.880 - 09
ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
Close cos 0.881 - 10
Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
website on heavy metal bands
Close cos 0.879 - 11
database of biomedical research
Close cos 0.880 - 12
Brazil
digital library
Close cos 0.879 - 13
open repository of academic articles
Close cos 0.879 - 14
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Close cos 0.877 - 15
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close cos 0.874 - 16
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
Close cos 0.875 - 17
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Close cos 0.876 - 18
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code
Close cos 0.873 - 19
learning management system
Close cos 0.872 - 20
Content Blocked
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers and related content
Close cos 0.874
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to scopus.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Scopus uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Scopus 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: 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…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Scopus adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on scopus.com 17/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Amazon Route 53 11/20
- Atlassian · not on scopus.com 9/20
- Apple Business · not on scopus.com 7/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on scopus.com 7/20
- OpenAI · not on scopus.com 7/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on scopus.com 6/20
- GlobalSign 6/20
- OneTrust · not on scopus.com 6/20
- DocuSign · not on scopus.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on scopus.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on scopus.com 5/20
- Salesforce · not on scopus.com 5/20
- Miro · not on scopus.com 4/20