Scopus AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like Scopus

Scopus is described as 'Elsevier’s Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields' and is a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Scopus, not only websites but also apps for Mac, Windows and Linux. The best Scopus alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Scopus are Connected Papers, Scinapse, Snowball and Elicit.

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  1. Google Scholar icon

    Google Scholar

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    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and...

    32 Google Scholar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    • Most users think Google Scholar is a great Scopus alternative.

    • Google Scholar is the most popular Web-based alternative to Scopus.

    • Google Scholar is the most popular free alternative to Scopus.

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryScopus is Paid and Proprietary
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    Scinapse

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    Scinapse is a free search engine for academic papers. As of September 2018, it indexes more than 200 million articles from more than 40,000 journals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  5. Snowball icon

    Snowball

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    Snowball lets you quickly find and filter through papers using the snowballing method. Start with a core collection of papers, and find more by going through their citations and references.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Snowball is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Scopus.

    • Snowball is the most popular Open Source alternative to Scopus.

    • Snowball is Free and Open SourceScopus is Paid and Proprietary
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    Elicit

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    Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help users efficiently discover, organize, and analyze academic papers and insights.

    19 Elicit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. CiteSeerX icon

    CiteSeerX

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    CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     

  9. Web of Knowledge

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    Thomson Reuters Web of KnowledgeSM is a research platform that gives you access to objective content and powerful tools to search, track, measure and collaborate in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. AMiner icon

    AMiner

     2 likes

    ArnetMiner (AMiner) is designed to search and perform data mining operations against academic publications on the Internet, using social network analysis to identify connections between researchers, conferences, and publications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. Shibata icon

    Shibata

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    Web interface to access Yubetsu Shibata - The World's 11th Largest Scientific Database

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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    LENS

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    The Lens serves almost all the patents and scholarly work in the world as a free, open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  13. ResearchLit icon

    ResearchLit

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    ResearchLit is an AI-powered platform designed to help researchers discover code repositories linked to academic papers and generate summaries or insights from collections of papers.

    19 ResearchLit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  14. Summarized Science icon

    Summarized Science

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    A free web-based literature monitoring platform that provides monthly topic-focused summaries of recent peer-reviewed scientific research. It helps researchers, clinicians, and students stay up to date with the large volume of publications in their field by offering structured...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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