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 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 Scinapse, Connected Papers, Elicit and Snowball.

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  1. Google Scholar icon
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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...

    27 Google Scholar alternatives

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online

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    Google Scholar includes questionable sources

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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
  2. Scinapse icon
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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.

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    • FreeProprietary

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

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    • Online

    Properties

    1.  Educational

    Features

    1.  Scientific data analysis
    2.  Indexed search

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    Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.

    15 Connected Papers alternatives

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    • FreemiumProprietary

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    • Online

    Properties

    1.  Educational

    Features

    1.  Graphs

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  4. Elicit icon
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    Elicit is a GPT-3 powered research assistant. Elicit helps you classify datasets, brainstorm research questions, and search through publications.

    15 Elicit alternatives

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    • FreeProprietary

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

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    • Online

    Elicit Features

    1.  Export to CSV
    2.  Keyword Research
    3.  Forecasting

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  5. Snowball icon
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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.

    9 Snowball alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Snowball Features

    1.  Citation detection
    2.  Book Manager

    Snowball VS Scopus

     
    • 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
  6. CiteSeerX icon
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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.

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online

    CiteSeerX Features

    1.  Reference linking

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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.

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online

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  8. LENS icon
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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.

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online

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  9. AMiner icon
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    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.

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online

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    Web interface to access Yubetsu Shibata - The World's 14th Largest Scientific Database

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Online

    Properties

    1.  Educational

    Features

    1.  Reading
    2.  Scientific data analysis
    3.  Article search

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    Based on a set of selected publications, suggesting related publications connected by references.

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Online

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