# Elsevier

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/elsevier/  
**Website:** https://dev.elsevier.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

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.

## Kin Score — 35.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 54.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 20.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 36.5 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **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 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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Elsevier Agentic Access** — 8 operations

## Security (2)

- **Elsevier Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Elsevier Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Elsevier Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Content, Journals, Medical, Research, Scientific, Technical

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/elsevier/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.