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.

Elsevier publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Abstract API and Search API. Tagged areas include Content, Journals, Medical, Research, and Scientific.

Elsevier’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, getting-started guide, documentation, code examples, support, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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35.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 37/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

7 APIs

ContentJournalsMedicalResearchScientificTechnical

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 35.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.7 / 17

Access Clarity 4.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 37/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

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APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Elsevier Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Guides

Guides

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Examples

Examples

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: elsevier
name: Elsevier
description: 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.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/elsevier.png
tags:
- Content
- Journals
- Medical
- Research
- Scientific
- Technical
created: '2023-11-22'
modified: '2026-04-28'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elsevier/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: elsevier:elsevier-scopus-apis
  name: Elsevier Scopus APIs
  description: Scopus delivers a comprehensive view of the world of research, allowing tracking, analysis, and visualization
    of research data across publishers, journals, books, conference proceedings, and trade publications.
  humanURL: https://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html
  tags:
  - Citations
  - Research
  - Scientific
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/scopus.html
  - type: Specification
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
- aid: elsevier:elsevier-sciencedirect-apis
  name: Elsevier ScienceDirect APIs
  description: ScienceDirect APIs expose peer-reviewed full-text scientific, technical and medical content from all scholarly
    publications indexed by ScienceDirect, Elsevier's premier scientific platform.
  humanURL: https://dev.elsevier.com/sd_apis.html
  tags:
  - Full Text
  - Journals
  - Scientific
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/sciencedirect.html
  - type: Specification
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
- aid: elsevier:elsevier-scival-api
  name: Elsevier SciVal API
  description: 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 research performance benchmarking.
  humanURL: https://dev.elsevier.com/scival_apis.html
  tags:
  - Benchmarking
  - Metrics
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/scival.html
  - type: Specification
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
- aid: elsevier:elsevier-engineering-village-api
  name: Elsevier Engineering Village API
  description: Engineering Village APIs provide programmatic access to engineering research literature, indexed publications,
    and engineering-focused content across multiple databases.
  humanURL: https://dev.elsevier.com/ev.html
  tags:
  - Engineering
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/ev.html
- aid: elsevier:elsevier-embase-api
  name: Elsevier Embase API
  description: Embase APIs provide access to biomedical and pharmacological abstracts and indexing for life sciences research,
    drug development, and evidence-based medicine.
  humanURL: https://dev.elsevier.com/embase.html
  tags:
  - Biomedical
  - Medical
  - Pharmacology
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/embase.html
- aid: elsevier:elsevier-abstract-api
  name: Elsevier Abstract API
  description: The Abstract API from Elsevier — 5 operation(s) for abstract.
  humanURL: https://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html
  tags:
  - Abstract
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elsevier-abstract-api-openapi.yml
- aid: elsevier:elsevier-search-api
  name: Elsevier Search API
  description: The Search API from Elsevier — 3 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elsevier-search-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/elsevier-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/elsevier-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/elsevier-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elsevier
- type: Portal
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/getting_started.html
- type: Documentation
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
- type: UseCases
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/use_cases.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_service_agreement.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/privacypolicy
- type: Examples
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/examples.html
- type: Guides
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/technical_documentation.html
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/ElsevierDev/elsapy
- type: Support
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/support.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.elsevier.com/connect
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Elsevier

Kin Score

APIs 7

Elsevier Scopus APIs

Elsevier ScienceDirect APIs

Elsevier SciVal API

Elsevier Engineering Village API

Elsevier Embase API

Elsevier Abstract API

Elsevier Search API

Open Collections 4

API Collection

Elsevier Scopus APIs Abstract API

Elsevier Scopus APIs Abstract Search API

Elsevier Scopus APIs

Pricing Plans 1

Elsevier Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Elsevier Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Elsevier Finops

Security Posture 2

Elsevier Authentication

Elsevier Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Elsevier Agentic Access