Research Database Directory

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Scopus

Elsevier's curated abstract and citation database — Web of Science's biggest rival, and broader in scope.

Tier 1 AcademicSubscription

Europe PMC

The open, full-text gateway to biomedical and life-sciences literature — PubMed's more open cousin.

Tier 1 Open AccessFree

Statista

The statistics portal that turns scattered market and survey data into citable charts — fast, broad, and secondary.

Tier 1 CorporateFreemium

OpenAlex

The fully open, CC0 index that set out to replace Scopus and Web of Science — bigger, free, and built for the Global South.

Tier 1 Open AccessFree

Dimensions

Digital Science's linked-data platform — the database that connects publications to the grants, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents around them.

Tier 1 AcademicFreemium

Web of Science

Clarivate's publisher-neutral citation index — six decades of curated, cover-to-cover indexing built around the citation as the unit of discovery.

Tier 1 AcademicSubscription