Scopus Alternatives
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 an website in the Education & Reference category. There are eight alternatives to Scopus, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Android Tablet and iPad. The best alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Scopus are Microsoft Academic Search (Free), Scinapse (Free), CiteSeerX (Free) and LENS (Free).
- 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.
Google Scholar vs Scopus opinions
Google Scholar includes questionable sources - Microsoft Academic Search is an experimental research service developed by Microsoft Research to explore how scholars, scientists, students, and practitioners find academic content, researchers, institutions, and activities.
- 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.
- CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science.No screenshots yet
- 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. Discover, analyse, and map global innovation knowledge.
- Winner of the SIIA Business Technology CODiE Award for Best Scholarly Research Information Solution, ACI is revolutionizing the way people conduct research by enabling them to find the content they’ve been missing.
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The ACI Scholarly Blog Index service has been discontinued
- 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.No screenshots yet
- 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.