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. Its Research Products APIs expose Scopus, ScienceDirect, SciVal, Embase, Engineering Village and COUNTER usage reporting over a single host, api.elsevier.com, under an API key plus institutional entitlement model.
Elsevier publishes 32 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Abstract API, Search API, Abstract Citation Count API, and 29 more. Tagged areas include Content, Journals, Medical, Research, and Scientific.
The Elsevier catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Elsevier’s developer surface includes pricing, authentication, changelog, release notes, sandbox, developer console, developer portal, and 41 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher Education and Research | standard | 42.2 | - | - |
| Book Publishing (ONIX / ISBN / EPUB supply chain) | standard | 42.2 | - | - |
| UK G-Cloud Suppliers (UK public-sector cloud procurement) | standard | 42.2 | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 3
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 32
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Elsevier Embase API
Embase APIs provide access to biomedical and pharmacological abstracts and indexing for life sciences research, drug development, and evidence-based medicine.
Elsevier COUNTER SUSHI API
Elsevier's COUNTER Code of Practice Release 5 and 5.1 API, delivering standards-compliant usage statistics and reports over SUSHI. Base https://api.elsevier.com/sushi/ for COP5 ...
Elsevier Abstract API
The Abstract API from Elsevier — 5 operation(s) for abstract.
Elsevier Search API
The Search API from Elsevier — 3 operation(s) for search.
Elsevier Abstract Citation Count API
Abstract Citation count API
Elsevier Abstract Retrieval API
Abstract Retrieval API
Elsevier Affiliation Retrieval API
Affiliation Retrieval API
Elsevier Affiliation Search API
Affiliation Search API
Elsevier Article Entitlement Retrieval API
Article Entitlement Retrieval API
Elsevier Article Metadata API
Article Metadata API
Elsevier Article Retrieval API
Article Retrieval API
Elsevier Author Retrieval API
Author Retrieval API
Elsevier Author Search API
Author Search API
Elsevier Citations Overview API
Citations Overview API
Elsevier Engineering Village Retrieval API
Engineering Village Retrieval API
Elsevier Engineering Village Search API
Engineering Village Search API
Elsevier Nonserial Title API
Nonserial Title API
Elsevier Object Retrieval API
Object Retrieval API
Elsevier Science Direct Search V2 API
ScienceDirect Search V2 API
Elsevier SciVal Author Lookup API
The SciVal Author Lookup API API from Elsevier — 4 operation(s) for scival author lookup api.
Elsevier SciVal Country Group Lookup API V1 API
The SciVal Country Group Lookup API V1 API from Elsevier — 3 operation(s) for scival country group lookup api v1.
Elsevier SciVal Country Lookup API V1 API
The SciVal Country Lookup API V1 API from Elsevier — 4 operation(s) for scival country lookup api v1.
Elsevier SciVal Institution Group Lookup API V1 API
The SciVal Institution Group Lookup API V1 API from Elsevier — 3 operation(s) for scival institution group lookup api v1.
Elsevier SciVal Institution Lookup API V1 API
The SciVal Institution Lookup API V1 API from Elsevier — 7 operation(s) for scival institution lookup api v1.
Elsevier SciVal Publication Lookup API V1 API
The SciVal Publication Lookup API V1 API from Elsevier — 2 operation(s) for scival publication lookup api v1.
Elsevier SciVal Scopus Source Lookup API
The SciVal Scopus Source Lookup API API from Elsevier — 3 operation(s) for scival scopus source lookup api.
Elsevier SciVal Subject Area Lookup API
The SciVal Subject Area Lookup API API from Elsevier — 3 operation(s) for scival subject area lookup api.
Elsevier SciVal Topic Cluster Lookup API
The SciVal Topic Cluster Lookup API API from Elsevier — 7 operation(s) for scival topic cluster lookup api.
Elsevier SciVal Topic Lookup API
The SciVal Topic Lookup API API from Elsevier — 7 operation(s) for scival topic lookup api.
Elsevier SciVal World Lookup API
The SciVal World Lookup API API from Elsevier — 1 operation(s) for scival world lookup api.
Elsevier Scopus Search API
Scopus Search API
Elsevier Serial Title API
Serial Title API
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Open Collections 3
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Elsevier Scopus APIs Abstract API
OPEN COLLECTIONElsevier Scopus APIs Abstract Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONElsevier Scopus APIs
OPEN COLLECTIONAgent Skills 5
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
elsevier-author-profile
AGENT SKILLelsevier-citation-metrics
AGENT SKILLelsevier-fulltext-entitlement
AGENT SKILLelsevier-literature-search
AGENT SKILLelsevier-scival-benchmarking
AGENT SKILLElsevier API pricing
Prices published by Elsevier. A free plan or tier is listed.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Non-commercial (academic and public-sector) free | Free Includes: see rate-limits/elsevier-rate-limits.yml |
| Commercial contact-sales | — |
| SciVal API subscription | — |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Serial Title: 20000 requests
- Citations Count Metadata: 50000 requests
- Subject Classifications: requests
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Elsevier Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
Elsevier
SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Elsevier Finops
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Elsevier API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 9
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Elsevier Abstract Api Overlay
DERIVEDElsevier Metadata Overlay
DERIVEDElsevier Retrieval Overlay
DERIVEDElsevier Sciencedirect Overlay
DERIVEDElsevier Scival Overlay
DERIVEDElsevier Scopus Overlay
DERIVEDElsevier Search Api Overlay
DERIVEDElsevier Search Overlay
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 9
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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Source (apis.yml)
Elsevier API — frequently asked questions
Does Elsevier have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 32 APIs from Elsevier, including Elsevier Embase API, Elsevier COUNTER SUSHI API and Elsevier Abstract API, and 29 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Elsevier API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 30 OpenAPI specifications for Elsevier, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Elsevier API?
Elsevier documents its authentication (apiKey/bearer-like-token/oauth2 · 6 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Elsevier Authentication.
How much does the Elsevier API cost?
APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Elsevier, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Elsevier API ready for AI agents?
Elsevier has a Kin Score of 60.9 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 38.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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