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 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Scopus APIs, ScienceDirect APIs, SciVal API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Content, Journals, Medical, Research, and Scientific.

Elsevier’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, release notes, sandbox, developer console, developer portal, documentation, and 32 more developer resources.

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60.9/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 37/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Content Journals Medical Research Scientific Technical

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 60.9/100 · strong

Contract Quality 9.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.4 / 15

Access Clarity 12.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 4.9 / 10

Contract Governance 0.4 / 9

Discoverability 5.1 / 8

Regulatory Posture 8.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 37/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 10

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

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.

Elsevier Retrieval APIs

The Retrieval APIs return a single record by identifier across the Elsevier corpus — abstracts, full-text articles, article objects, entitlements, author profiles and affiliatio...

Elsevier Metadata APIs

The Metadata APIs cover citation counts, the Citations Overview, and serial and non-serial title metadata and search — the bibliographic layer over Scopus rather than the conten...

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.

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Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Elsevier Scopus APIs Abstract API

OPEN COLLECTION

Elsevier Scopus APIs Abstract Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Elsevier Scopus APIs

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Elsevier Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Elsevier Rate Limits

36 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Elsevier Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Elsevier Authentication

apiKey/bearer-like-token/oauth2 · 6 schemes

SECURITY

Elsevier Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Elsevier Trust Center

ISO/IEC 27001

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Elsevier Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Elsevier Agentic Access

8 operations

8 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox

Console

Portal

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

Components

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

SDKs

Postman

Examples

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Compliance

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Tutorials

Tutorials

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ReleaseNotes

RateLimits

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

OpenIDConnect

OpenIDConnect

WADL

WADL

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. 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.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
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: '2026-09-06'
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
  baseURL: https://api.elsevier.com/content
  tags:
  - Citations
  - Research
  - Scientific
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elsevier-scopus-swagger.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elsevier-scopus-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/scopus.html
  - type: Specification
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
  - type: Console
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/scopus.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
  baseURL: https://api.elsevier.com/content
  tags:
  - Full Text
  - Journals
  - Scientific
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elsevier-sciencedirect-swagger.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elsevier-sciencedirect-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/sciencedirect.html
  - type: Specification
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
  - type: Console
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/sciencedirect.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
  baseURL: https://api.elsevier.com/analytics/scival
  tags:
  - Benchmarking
  - Metrics
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elsevier-scival-swagger.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elsevier-scival-overlay.yaml
  - 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_apis.html
  baseURL: https://api.elsevier.com/content
  tags:
  - Engineering
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elsevier-engineering-village-swagger.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elsevier-engineering-village-overlay.yaml
  - type: WADL
    url: wadl/elsevier-engineering-village.wadl
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/ev_apis.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_apis.html
  baseURL: https://api.elsevier.com/content
  tags:
  - Biomedical
  - Medical
  - Pharmacology
  properties:
  - type: WADL
    url: wadl/elsevier-embase.wadl
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/embase_apis.html
- aid: elsevier:elsevier-retrieval-apis
  name: Elsevier Retrieval APIs
  description: The Retrieval APIs return a single record by identifier across the Elsevier corpus — abstracts, full-text articles,
    article objects, entitlements, author profiles and affiliation profiles — reachable interchangeably by DOI, EID, PII,
    PubMed ID or Scopus ID. 41 paths on api.elsevier.com/content.
  humanURL: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
  baseURL: https://api.elsevier.com/content
  tags:
  - Retrieval
  - Full Text
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elsevier-retrieval-swagger.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elsevier-retrieval-overlay.yaml
  - type: Console
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/retrieval.html
- aid: elsevier:elsevier-metadata-apis
  name: Elsevier Metadata APIs
  description: The Metadata APIs cover citation counts, the Citations Overview, and serial and non-serial title metadata and
    search — the bibliographic layer over Scopus rather than the content itself. Six paths on api.elsevier.com/content.
  humanURL: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
  baseURL: https://api.elsevier.com/content
  tags:
  - Metadata
  - Citations
  - Journals
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elsevier-metadata-swagger.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elsevier-metadata-overlay.yaml
  - type: Console
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/metadata.html
- aid: elsevier:elsevier-sushi-api
  name: Elsevier COUNTER SUSHI API
  description: 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 and https://api.elsevier.com/sushi/r51/ for COP5.1,
    with /status, /members and /reports endpoints. Access requires a COUNTER requestor ID and a preconfigured key issued by
    Elsevier support.
  humanURL: https://dev.elsevier.com/sushicop5.html
  baseURL: https://api.elsevier.com/sushi
  tags:
  - COUNTER
  - SUSHI
  - Usage Statistics
  properties:
  - type: WADL
    url: wadl/elsevier-sushicop5.wadl
  - type: WADL
    url: wadl/elsevier-sushicop51.wadl
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/sushicop5.html
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/elsevier-conformance.yml
- 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
  baseURL: https://api.elsevier.com
  tags:
  - Abstract
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elsevier-abstract-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elsevier-abstract-api-overlay.yaml
- 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
  baseURL: https://api.elsevier.com
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elsevier-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elsevier-search-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elsevier-search-swagger.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/elsevier-search-overlay.yaml
  - type: Console
    url: https://dev.elsevier.com/search.html
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.elsevier.com/
- 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: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/elsevier-scopes.yml
- type: OpenIDConnect
  url: https://id.elsevier.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/elsevier-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/elsevier-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.elsevier.com/security
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/elsevier-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/elsevier-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/elsevier-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/elsevier-changelog.yml
- type: ReleaseNotes
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/release_notes.html
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/elsevier-data-model.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/elsevier-components.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/elsevier-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/elsevier-rate-limits.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/elsevier-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/elsevier-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/elsevier-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/elsevier-mcp.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/elsevier-sandbox.yml
- type: Console
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/interactive.html
- type: WADL
  url: wadl/_index.yml
- type: Postman
  url: collections/elsevier.postman_collection.json
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elsevier
- type: Portal
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
- type: APIReference
  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: https://www.elsevier.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: Examples
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/examples.html
- type: Tutorials
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/technical_documentation.html
- type: Support
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/support.html
- type: SignUp
  url: https://dev.elsevier.com/apikey/manage
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ElsevierDev
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.elsevier.com/connect
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-06'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v3

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