Web of Knowledge Alternatives

Web of Knowledge is described as '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' and is an website in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Web of Knowledge, not only websites but also apps for iPhone and Windows. The best Web of Knowledge alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Web of Knowledge are ResearchGate, Semantic Scholar, Scinapse and OA.mg.

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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...

    29 Google Scholar alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
    • Google Scholar is the most popular Web-based alternative to Web of Knowledge.

    • Google Scholar is the most popular free alternative to Web of Knowledge.

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryWeb of Knowledge is also Free and Proprietary
  2. ResearchGate icon
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    Enables users to upload and share scientific papers, connect with researchers globally, discover and follow research topics, access datasets, send direct messages, participate in discussions, track citation metrics, and explore academic job opportunities.

    35 ResearchGate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • iPhone
     
    • ResearchGate is the most popular iPhone alternative to Web of Knowledge.

    • ResearchGate is Free and ProprietaryWeb of Knowledge is also Free and Proprietary
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    Semantic Scholar (paywall free) is a science publication aggregator that collects citation-data from PubMed, CiteSeer, IEEE etc and rank each article according to the percieved number of impactful citations.

    16 Semantic Scholar alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  4. 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.

    11 Scinapse alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. OA.mg icon
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    OA.mg is a search engine for academic papers. Whether you are looking for a specific paper, or for research from a field, or all of an author’s works – OA.mg is the place to find it.

    13 OA.mg alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Publish or Perish (PoP) uses Scopus, Crossref, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, and Web of Science queries to obtain citation information, which is then analysed and converted to a variety of metrics (see Appendix).

    7 Publish or Perish alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
    • Publish or Perish is the most popular Windows alternative to Web of Knowledge.

    • Publish or Perish is Free and ProprietaryWeb of Knowledge is also Free and Proprietary
  7. Scopus icon
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    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.

    11 Scopus alternatives

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    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
    • Scopus is the most popular commercial alternative to Web of Knowledge.

    • Scopus is Paid and ProprietaryWeb of Knowledge is Free and Proprietary
  8. Shibata icon
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    Web interface to access Yubetsu Shibata - The World's 11th Largest Scientific Database

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. Biohunter icon
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    Biohunter is a single portal which provides literature search, data statistics, reading, sorting, storing, journal suggestion for publication, field expert identification and their contact details for collaboration. www.biohunter.in.

    25 Biohunter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Warning

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    • Online
     
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    We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors.

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    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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