Elsevier · Rate Limits

Elsevier Rate Limits

Per-API weekly quotas and per-second throttles for the Elsevier Research Products APIs, transcribed from the provider's own Default API Key Settings table. Elsevier states plainly that "Quota limits are unique to each API, there is not a single global setting for a given APIKey" — so these are per-API-key, per-API limits, not tiers.

Elsevier Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Elsevier on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 36 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled, quotaExceeded, and note.

Tagged areas include Content, Journals, Medical, Research, and Scientific.

36 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
ContentJournalsMedicalResearchScientificTechnical

Limits

Serial Title api-key
requests
20000
Citations Count Metadata api-key
requests
50000
Subject Classifications api-key
requests
Abstract Retrieval api-key
requests
10000
Affiliation Retrieval api-key
requests
5000
Author Retrieval api-key
requests
5000
Affiliation Search api-key
requests
5000
Author Search api-key
requests
5000
Scopus Search api-key
requests
20000
Serial Title api-key
requests
20000
Nonserial Title api-key
requests
20000
Subject Classifications api-key
requests
Article Retrieval api-key
requests
50000
Article Metadata api-key
requests
ScienceDirect Search v2 api-key
requests
20000
SciVal Author Lookup api-key
requests
5000
SciVal Country Lookup api-key
requests
5000
SciVal Country Group Lookup api-key
requests
5000
SciVal Institution Lookup api-key
requests
5000
SciVal Institution Group Lookup api-key
requests
5000
SciVal Publication Lookup api-key
requests
5000
SciVal Scopus Source Lookup api-key
requests
5000
SciVal Subject Area api-key
requests
5000
SciVal Topic Lookup api-key
requests
5000
SciVal Topic Cluster Lookup api-key
requests
5000
SciVal World Lookup api-key
requests
5000
Scopus Citation Overview api-key
requests
20000
Scopus Author Feedback api-key
requests
ScienceDirect Full-Text Entitlement api-key
requests
ScienceDirect Article Hosting Permissions api-key
requests
ScienceDirect Holdings Report api-key
requests
Embase Search api-key
requests
Embase Retrieval api-key
requests
Engineering Village Search api-key
requests
Engineering Village Retrieval api-key
requests
SUSHI COP5 API api-key
requests

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