Scientific Publishing and Third-Party-Tracking. Who are the Third Parties? – Code snippets within the source code of publisher's websites are leading to various companies

In the website source code of scientific publishers, hosts or software-providers like Elsevier, Web of Science and Wiley are code fragments inserted that links to third-parties. Some of these third-parties are specialized in collecting, enriching, analyzing and reselling user data. This article points out which third party could be detected in the source code of which publisher. Through short explanations and links the reader can get an idea of those third parties and their business model.