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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.

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01 · Entity

About Cell

Cell cell.com

Wikidata: scientific journal

Top 10K · #2,708 English 8 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Cell

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

Live ScienceEurope PubMed Centraljamanetwork.commedRxivNews Medicalfrontiersin.orgScienceDirectpnas.orgScienceNature

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Cell

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

Only in English

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

  1. 01
    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.

  2. 02
    Science science.org Top 10K English

    academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

  3. 03
    pnas.org Top 10K English

    academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences

  4. 04
    ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K English

    ScienceDirect

    journal

  5. 05
    frontiersin.org Top 1K English

    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.

  6. 06
    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.

  7. 07
    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

  8. 08
    jamanetwork.com Top 10K English

    peer-reviewed medical journal

  9. 09
    Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org Top 10K English

    database of biomedical research

  10. 10
    bioRxiv biorxiv.org Top 10K English

    bioRxiv.org - the preprint server for Biology

    bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication

  11. 11
    Live Science livescience.com Top 10K English

    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.

  12. 12
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

  13. 13
    EurekAlert! eurekalert.org Top 10K English

    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.

  14. 14
    PLOS plos.org Top 10K English

    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.

  15. 15
    ScienceAlert sciencealert.com Top 10K English

    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.

  16. 16
    MDPI mdpi.com Top 1K

    publisher of open-access scientific journals

  17. 17
    De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English

    De Gruyter Brill

    De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

  18. 18
    lww.com Top 10K English

    Browse

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

  19. 19
    ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com Top 10K English

    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.

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    Phys.org phys.org Top 10K English

    Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology

    Daily science news on research developments, technological breakthroughs and the latest scientific innovations

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
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Cookie consent
  • OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=509af418dcce43c5a6330cd2128ee529
CDN
Email hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=fd4fae74b683e6e22ef9b491871ae9f0faf7856b8…
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=2ckcJUmjEfh8TAauQPrWb9eLXpM1UyNHPk+6Smz…
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=edd5a54fc20add96505c5c718975977b28f370a9
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