Alternatives and competitors

Sites like The BMJ

The 20 closest medical journal alternatives to The BMJ, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 14 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to The BMJ? The closest matches are The New England Journal of Medicine, jamanetwork.com and The Lancet. 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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01 · Entity

About The BMJ

The BMJ bmj.com

Wikidata: peer-reviewed medical journal

Top 10K · #1,247 English 14 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit The BMJ

Summary by Claude

The BMJ is a long-running general medical journal publishing peer-reviewed research, clinical reviews, news, opinion and education for doctors, published by BMJ Publishing Group, owned by the British Medical Association.

Who it’s for
Doctors, clinicians and medical researchers
Business model
Subscriptions, article processing charges and advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to The BMJ’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

Springer Science+Business MediaScienceDirectThe AtlanticEveryday HealthMedscapemedRxivMedicalNewsTodayThe Lancetjamanetwork.comThe New England Journal of Medicine

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to The BMJ

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The BMJ, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English

We can’t read bmj.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    The New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org Top 10K English

    peer-reviewed medical journal

  2. 02
    jamanetwork.com Top 10K English

    peer-reviewed medical journal

  3. 03
    The Lancet thelancet.com Top 10K English

    peer-reviewed general medical journal

  4. 04
    MedicalNewsToday medicalnewstoday.com Top 10K English

    Medical and health information | MedicalNewsToday

    Medical news and health news headlines posted throughout the day, every day

  5. 05
    medRxiv medrxiv.org Top 10K English

    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

  6. 06
    Medscape medscape.com Top 10K English

    Today on Medscape

    educational website (1995-)

  7. 07
    Everyday Health everydayhealth.com Top 10K English

    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

  8. 08
    News Medical news-medical.net Top 10K English

    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.

  9. 09
    The Atlantic theatlantic.com Top 10K English

    Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic

    magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.

  10. 10
    ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K English

    ScienceDirect

    journal

  11. 11
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

  12. 12
    Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org Top 10K English

    database of biomedical research

  13. 13
    Nature nature.com Top 1K English

    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.

  14. 14
    Men's Journal mensjournal.com Top 10K English

    mensjournal.com

    American magazine

  15. 15
    TIME time.com Top 1K English

    TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

    Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.

  16. 16
    lww.com Top 10K English

    Browse

    book publishing imprint descended in part from J. B. Lippincott & Co. and Lea Brothers

  17. 17
    The Economist economist.com Top 10K English

    British weekly news and international affairs publication (founded 1843)

  18. 18
    American Medical Association ama-assn.org Top 10K English

    United States association of physicians and medical students

  19. 19
    The Independent independent.co.uk Top 1K English

    News | The Independent | Today's headlines and latest breaking news

    The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.

  20. 20
    The Guardian theguardian.com Top 1K English

    Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian

    Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to bmj.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones The BMJ uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What The BMJ is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Analytics
  • Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=f14535bb05cb2f21e10a3a9b6cb88886d3760f8d6840233c6…
CDN
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=xMxPnUBBR3PH28wU
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=UMbqAXwE6CKOUBe5qskTyZMh29F5Qm9+d2USTYw…
  • Canva TXT canva-site-verification=cRhfe_rMulQyVStey_Qhhw
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=Kzb2MNxcIrJl2RL1tRfnv8NkZGDfhCg5oPbpx…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=y8zdx7dEl18vdONoTPShAiuS40G_wk_yDSDXHC7rw7Q
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=4o8ulcoe48nuns5wzh33ukvri1zc1g
  • Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=k1wccdIpYGEJfNex7QojAs1a8QbEzIgdXBZbUoBxNSH
  • Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_gp9Ge4mVpvMNvlfYBDFXIp

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