Scholarly iQ sustainability score: 25/100
Better than 6% of SaaS / Digital Services
Below expectations starts at 31. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Scholarly iQ is a SaaS provider delivering COUNTER-compliant usage analytics and reporting services to academic publishers and research libraries. Founded in 2002, the company processes publisher usage data at scale (120+ million page views monthly) and integrates with platforms including HighWire, Silverchair, and Ingenta.
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Scholarly iQ publishes no environmental data whatsoever. The analytics vendor for academic publishers operates with zero disclosed emissions, energy, or waste practices. No targets and no reporting—a complete absence of sustainability disclosure across all measured dimensions.
Scholarly iQ scores 25/100 (Significant gaps) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified October 2026.
That places Scholarly iQ joint 871st of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 63rd of 69 in SaaS / Digital Services.
What is Scholarly iQ doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Carbon Footprint: Operations (8/10, 3/10). Weakest on Transparency & Accountability and Nature & Biodiversity Impact (0/10, 1/10).
Where Scholarly iQ lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- How openly it reportsPublish sustainability information.
- Its effect on natureShow it knows its main risks to nature.
- How it uses materials and handles wasteShow recycling or waste reduction.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations3/10No emissions figures for its own operations, not even an estimate from energy bills.
- Emissions from its supply chain2/10No assessment of where its supply-chain emissions come from.
- Whether its emissions are falling2/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
- How clean its energy is2/10No renewable energy tariff or major efficiency investment shown.
- Its effect on nature1/10No evidence it knows its main risks to nature.
- How it uses materials and handles waste1/10No recycling or waste reduction shown.
- Its effect on water1/10No figures for its water use.
- Its climate targets1/10No emissions reduction targets.
- How openly it reports0/10No sustainability information published.
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How is Scholarly iQ's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas Scholarly iQ's score changed?
Scholarly iQ's score has been reviewed 2 times and currently stands where it started, at 25.
- 25 → 257 November 2026
Correction, 7 November 2026: removed an unsourced emissions figure. Score unchanged.
- Scored 2512 October 2026
Initial public score 25 (publish-draft)
What evidence is Scholarly iQ's score based on?
9 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
67% of them were published by Scholarly iQ itself; the rest come from independent sources.
“Launched in 2002, SiQ provides industry leading data management and analytic reporting services to libraries and publishers for high-value information resources.”
“Over 120 Million Page Views per Month reported”
“a long standing leader in usage analytics services”
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How does Scholarly iQ compare with other saas / digital services companies?
Where Scholarly iQ sits among saas / digital services peers.
Among the 69 major saas / digital services brands we've scored, Scholarly iQ is tied =63rd of 69, with 2 others.
Who scores higher in SaaS / Digital Services?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Scholarly iQ.
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