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ScientificAdvisorBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Public scholarly crawler: publisher pages and APIs (Crossref, ORCID, PubMed) for author data already shown on articles. Operated by Scientific Advisor.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Academic Research

What is ScientificAdvisorBot?

ScientificAdvisorBot is operated by Scientific Advisor, a platform dedicated to helping the academic community share and compare experiences regarding journals and publishers. Unlike general-purpose AI crawlers, this bot focuses on gathering specific scholarly metadata to populate a research-oriented database. It maintains a transparent identity, providing a dedicated verification page and clear instructions for site owners to opt out of its crawling activities.

Helpful — This bot operates transparently with clear opt-out mechanisms and a specific, non-commercial academic purpose.

Identification

Bot name

ScientificAdvisorBot

Operator

Scientific Advisor

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls the web to extract structured data related to academic publishing, such as journal metrics and metadata, which are then indexed on the Scientific Advisor platform. This allows researchers to make informed decisions about where to submit their work based on peer-reported experiences. The operator provides a clear verification path via their domain and respects standard exclusion protocols, ensuring that site owners retain control over their content.

Block or allow ScientificAdvisorBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for ScientificAdvisorBot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block ScientificAdvisorBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: ScientificAdvisorBot
Disallow: /

# Allow ScientificAdvisorBot full access
User-agent: ScientificAdvisorBot
Allow: /