What is the difference between ScienceDirect and Scopus data?
Last updated on May 13, 2026
ScienceDirectopens in new tab/window and Scopusopens in new tab/window use two different databases.
ScienceDirect contains full text articles from journals and books, primarily published by Elsevier, but including some hosted societies.
Scopus indexes metadata from abstracts and references of thousands of publishers, including Elsevier. Scopus builds additional functionality on top of that metadata, such as citation matching, author profiles, and affiliation profiles. Learn more about the relationship between article, author, and affiliationopens in new tab/window.
Scopus indexes nearly the entire ScienceDirect database, but without the articles’ full text. Scopus builds the profiles and metrics using that data.
Note: ScienceDirect cannot be searched using Scopus-native identifiers (such as AF-ID or Scopus ID).
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