Alternatives and competitors
Sites like biomedcentral.com
The 20 closest open access academic publishing alternatives to biomedcentral.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to biomedcentral.com? The closest matches are Europe PubMed Central, frontiersin.org and jamanetwork.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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- k = 20
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01 · Entity
About biomedcentral.com
biomedcentral.com
Client Challenge
Wikidata: British academic publisher
Summary by Claude
BioMed Central is an open access publisher of over 250 online peer-reviewed journals in biology, medicine and related sciences, owned by Springer Nature.
- Who it’s for
- Researchers, clinicians and academics
- Business model
- Article processing charges
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to biomedcentral.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to biomedcentral.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to biomedcentral.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
database of biomedical research
Very close cos 0.920 - 02
Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals
Open access publisher of peer-reviewed scientific articles across the entire spectrum of academia. Research network for academics to stay up-to-date with the latest scientific publications, events, blogs and news.
Very close cos 0.912 - 03
peer-reviewed medical journal
Very close cos 0.912 - 04
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.907 - 05
peer-reviewed medical journal
Very close cos 0.902 - 06
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close cos 0.902 - 07
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.902 - 08
medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences
medRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Very close cos 0.900 - 09
Nature
First published in 1869, Nature is the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. Nature publishes the finest peer-reviewed research that drives ground-breaking discovery, and is read by thought-leaders and decision-makers around the world.
Very close cos 0.900 - 10 Very close cos 0.897
- 11
Today on Medscape
educational website (1995-)
Very close cos 0.897 - 12
Leading the future of open science publishing - PLOS
Discover how we are transforming scholarly publishing with a mission-driven commitment to open science, research integrity, and innovation that benefits researchers, institutions, and society worldwide.
Close cos 0.893 - 13
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close cos 0.895 - 14
peer-reviewed medical journal
Close cos 0.893 - 15
bioRxiv.org - the preprint server for Biology
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Close cos 0.892 - 16
Medical News | Medical Articles
Medical News and articles you can trust from around the world. All content is written and reviewed by qualified health, medical and scientific experts.
Very close cos 0.895 - 17
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Close cos 0.894 - 18
publisher of open-access scientific journals
Close cos 0.892 - 19
Everyday Health: Trusted Medical Information, Expert Health Advice, News, Tools, and Resources
Everyday Health inspires and empowers people to live their healthiest lives, every day, through trusted, medically reviewed information and expert health advice from the nation's leading healthcare providers and patient advocates. Learn more about health
Very close cos 0.896 - 20
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC
United States government public health agency
Close cos 0.893
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to biomedcentral.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones biomedcentral.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What biomedcentral.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080044-BER, cache-ber1080020-BER
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms78691022
- Proofpoint MX mxa-002c5801.gslb.pphosted.com
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 a:mailer.biomedcentral.com ip4:167.89.16.99 ip4:195.140.184.0/…
- DNS hosting
- UltraDNS NS pdns3.ultradns.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=e7d316e26179ad0d4b3f90cf2a0754eec7efe5ffd…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=Jmh9diDco9XlartV5akcdA
- DocuSign TXT docusign=c61dc97d-90e4-4de9-af63-e70f97e1f783
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=Myyx9Ky7tszX0BbqISSvJjgoGcwXoeDJCF_AYv…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=PMA0l5p3valJp2QZdgL9GFICUNmnMyz7xn8uUIqaod8
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=xre922w5m9nvmw5waqvlmnq41x7dcz
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 a:mailer.biomedcentral.com ip4:167.89.16.99 ip4:195.140.184.0/…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what biomedcentral.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Cloudflare · not on biomedcentral.com 11/20
- Atlassian · not on biomedcentral.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on biomedcentral.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- OpenAI · not on biomedcentral.com 6/20
- GlobalSign 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on biomedcentral.com 5/20
- Apple Business · not on biomedcentral.com 5/20
- Adobe 5/20
- OneTrust · not on biomedcentral.com 5/20
- Zendesk · not on biomedcentral.com 4/20
- Mimecast · not on biomedcentral.com 4/20
- Brevo · not on biomedcentral.com 3/20
- Google Workspace · not on biomedcentral.com 3/20