Scilit
MAJOR INTERFACE UPDATE
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-20
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
2023-05-30
Owner of search system:
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) AG
Location of system headquarters:
Basel, CH
Year of launch:
2013
Type:
Digital library
Help URL:
N/A
Twitter:
Description of search system (by system owner)
Scilit is a comprehensive, free database for scientists using a new method to collate data and indexing scientific material. Our crawlers extract the latest data from CrossRef and PubMed on a daily basis. This means that newly published articles are added to Scilit immediately.
Total coverage:
164.17M
Year-over-year growth (2022-2023):
3.07%
Subject coverage:
Multidisciplinary
Retrospective coverage:
1595–2022
Record types:
15
Open Access records:
27.00M / 16.47%
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
limited
Backward citation searching:
sufficient
Forward citation searching:
extensive
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
5
Query
Latency with short query:
0.72 seconds
Latency with long query:
0.55 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
11
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
1000 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
500 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
3
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
15
Results filters:
14
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
66.33%
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
62.87%
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
10500
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
500
Export formats:
3
API:
upon request
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
1
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
1000
