ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect

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source type	foobar (not part of original row)
publisher	Fooland (state-funded media) (not part of original row)
classification	Generally unreliable: Editors show consensus that the source is questionable in most cases.

ScienceDirect is an online bibliographical database run by Elsevier. In addition to academic publications, the website maintains machine-generated "topic pages" consisting of quotations from publications in the database. These topic pages change over time, presenting a challenge to verifiability. Citations should be made to the actual, underlying publications quoted by the topic page.

Prior discussions

Please add links to other significant discussions. When in doubt, read and rely on the discussions themselves, rather than the simple summary.

• WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 270#Elsevier topics: reliability of machine-generated sources
• WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 417#Elsevier topics again
• WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 422#Machine-generated text at ScienceDirect used as source
• WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 432#ScienceDirect Topics (AI-generated pages)

• Simple summary of prior discussions: TBD

Notes

References

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Perennial sources

Source	Status (legend)	Discussions			Use
		List	Last	Summary
ScienceDirect topic page		1 2 3 4	2023	ScienceDirect is an online bibliographical database run by Elsevier. In addition to academic publications, the website maintains machine-generated "topic pages" consisting of quotations from publications in the database. These topic pages change over time, presenting a challenge to verifiability. Citations should be made to the actual, underlying publications quoted by the topic page.	1