Elsevier

Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as The Lancet and Cell, the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, the online citation database Scopus, the SciVal research performance platform, and the ClinicalKey search engine for clinicians.

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APIs

Elsevier Scopus APIs

Scopus delivers a comprehensive view of the world of research, allowing tracking, analysis, and visualization of research data across publishers, journals, books, conference pro...

Elsevier ScienceDirect APIs

ScienceDirect APIs expose peer-reviewed full-text scientific, technical and medical content from all scholarly publications indexed by ScienceDirect, Elsevier's premier scientif...

Elsevier SciVal API

The SciVal API gives access to a comprehensive set of metrics for researchers (Scopus Author profiles) and 8,500+ institutions available in SciVal, Elsevier's platform for resea...

Elsevier Engineering Village API

Engineering Village APIs provide programmatic access to engineering research literature, indexed publications, and engineering-focused content across multiple databases.

Elsevier Embase API

Embase APIs provide access to biomedical and pharmacological abstracts and indexing for life sciences research, drug development, and evidence-based medicine.

Collections

Elsevier Scopus APIs

OPEN

Pricing Plans

Elsevier Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits

Elsevier Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps

Elsevier Finops

FINOPS

Resources

Sources

opencollection: 1.0.0
info:
  name: Elsevier Scopus APIs
  version: 1.0.0
request:
  auth:
    type: apikey
    key: X-ELS-APIKey
    value: '{{X-ELS-APIKey}}'
    placement: header
items:
- info:
    name: Search
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Scopus Search
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/scopus
      headers:
      - name: Accept
        value: ''
      - name: X-ELS-Insttoken
        value: ''
      params:
      - name: query
        value: ''
        type: query
        description: Boolean search string.
      - name: count
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: start
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: view
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: sort
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: facets
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Boolean search across the Scopus abstracts cluster.
  - info:
      name: Author Search
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/author
      headers:
      - name: Accept
        value: ''
      - name: X-ELS-Insttoken
        value: ''
      params:
      - name: query
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: co-author
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: view
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: start
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: count
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: sort
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: facets
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Boolean search against Scopus author profiles.
  - info:
      name: Affiliation Search
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/affiliation
      headers:
      - name: Accept
        value: ''
      - name: X-ELS-Insttoken
        value: ''
      params:
      - name: query
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: view
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: start
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: count
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: sort
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: facets
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Boolean search against Scopus affiliation profiles.
- info:
    name: Abstract
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Abstract Retrieval by Scopus ID
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/:scopus_id
      headers:
      - name: Accept
        value: ''
      - name: X-ELS-Insttoken
        value: ''
      params:
      - name: scopus_id
        value: ''
        type: path
      - name: view
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Abstract Retrieval by Scopus ID
  - info:
      name: Abstract Retrieval by EID
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/eid/:eid
      headers:
      - name: Accept
        value: ''
      - name: X-ELS-Insttoken
        value: ''
      params:
      - name: eid
        value: ''
        type: path
      - name: view
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Abstract Retrieval by EID
  - info:
      name: Abstract Retrieval by DOI
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/doi/:doi
      headers:
      - name: Accept
        value: ''
      - name: X-ELS-Insttoken
        value: ''
      params:
      - name: doi
        value: ''
        type: path
      - name: view
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Abstract Retrieval by DOI
  - info:
      name: Abstract Retrieval by PII
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/pii/:pii
      headers:
      - name: Accept
        value: ''
      - name: X-ELS-Insttoken
        value: ''
      params:
      - name: pii
        value: ''
        type: path
      - name: view
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Abstract Retrieval by PII
  - info:
      name: Abstract Retrieval by PubMed ID
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/pubmed_id/:pubmed_id
      headers:
      - name: Accept
        value: ''
      - name: X-ELS-Insttoken
        value: ''
      params:
      - name: pubmed_id
        value: ''
        type: path
      - name: view
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Abstract Retrieval by PubMed ID
bundled: true