Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Cell
The 20 closest Scientific journal publishing alternatives to Cell, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Cell? The closest matches are Nature, Science and pnas.org. 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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 11 ms
01 · Entity
About Cell
Cell cell.com
Wikidata: scientific journal
Summary by Claude
Website of Cell Press, publisher of the peer-reviewed life sciences journal Cell and its sister journals, offering research articles, reviews and submission services for authors.
- Who it’s for
- Life science researchers and academics
- Business model
- Subscriptions and article processing charges
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Cell’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 Cell
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Cell, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read cell.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
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 0.916 - 02
academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Very close cos 0.904 - 03
academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences
Very close cos 0.900 - 04
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.897 - 05
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 0.896 - 06
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 - 07
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
Close cos 0.893 - 08
peer-reviewed medical journal
Close cos 0.892 - 09
database of biomedical research
Close cos 0.891 - 10
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 0.890 - 11
Live Science | Latest science news and articles for those with curious minds
Daily discoveries, groundbreaking research and fascinating science breakthroughs that impact you and the wider world, reported by our expert journalists.
Close cos 0.893 - 12
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Close cos 0.891 - 13
EurekAlert! Science News Releases
EurekAlert! is an online science news service featuring health, medicine, science and technology news from leading research institutions and universities. Sponsored by AAAS, the science society.
- Microsoft 365
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Apache HTTP Server
- Font Awesome
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Fonts
Close cos 0.890 - 14
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 0.885 - 15
ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News And Amazing Breakthroughs
The latest science news. Publishing independent, fact-checked reporting on health, space, nature, technology, and the environment.
Close cos 0.889 - 16
publisher of open-access scientific journals
Close cos 0.884 - 17
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Close cos 0.886 - 18
Browse
book publishing imprint descended in part from J. B. Lippincott & Co. and Lea Brothers
Close cos 0.881 - 19
ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news
Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries in astronomy, anthropology, biology, chemistry, climate & environment, computers, engineering, health & medicine, math, physics, psychology, technology, and more -- from the world's leading universities and research organizations.
Close cos 0.885 - 20
Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology
Daily science news on research developments, technological breakthroughs and the latest scientific innovations
- Apache HTTP Server
- Google Ad Manager
- Google AdSense
- Google Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
Close cos 0.882
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to cell.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Cell uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Cell is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:519224.spf06.hubspo…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=509af418dcce43c5a6330cd2128ee529
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630cc8dc3662ea-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX cell-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Cell adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on cell.com 18/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Cloudflare 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on cell.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on cell.com 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on cell.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on cell.com 6/20
- Atlassian 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on cell.com 5/20
- Salesforce · not on cell.com 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on cell.com 5/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on cell.com 5/20
- Font Awesome · not on cell.com 5/20
- PHP · not on cell.com 5/20
- OneTrust 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on cell.com 4/20