Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Europe PubMed Central
The 20 closest biomedical literature database alternatives to Europe PubMed Central, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 2 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Europe PubMed Central? The closest matches are medRxiv, OSF and Our World in Data. 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
- 19 ms
01 · Entity
About Europe PubMed Central
Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org
Wikidata: database of biomedical research
Summary by Claude
A free searchable database and open-access repository of biomedical and life sciences literature, including journal abstracts, full-text articles, preprints, and grant information.
- Who it’s for
- Biomedical researchers, clinicians, and students
- Business model
- Publicly funded by research funders
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Europe PubMed Central’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 Europe PubMed Central
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Europe PubMed Central, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read europepmc.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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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 0.933 - 02
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close cos 0.913 - 03
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
Very close cos 0.913 - 04
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close cos 0.911 - 05
bioRxiv.org - the preprint server for Biology
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Very close cos 0.909 - 06
ClinicalTrials.gov
United States government registry of clinical trials
Very close cos 0.908 - 07
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close cos 0.907 - 08
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.906 - 09
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.906 - 10
US government medical research agency
Very close cos 0.905 - 11
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.903 - 12
MedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
Find information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine.
- Amazon Web Services
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- jQuery
Very close cos 0.903 - 13
Brazil
digital library
Very close cos 0.901 - 14
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 0.901 - 15
Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist
View the latest from the world of psychology: from behavioral research to practical guidance on relationships, mental health and addiction. Find help from our directory of therapists, psychologists and counselors.
Very close cos 0.899 - 16
open repository of academic articles
Very close cos 0.898 - 17
EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery Service
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions
Very close cos 0.895 - 18
Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool
Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.
Very close cos 0.895 - 19
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 0.892 - 20 Close cos 0.891
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to europepmc.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Europe PubMed Central uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Europe PubMed Central is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a563243fe82d62b4-HAM
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1133.awsdns-13.org
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Europe PubMed Central adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on europepmc.org 17/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on europepmc.org 12/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on europepmc.org 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on europepmc.org 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on europepmc.org 5/20
- PHP · not on europepmc.org 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on europepmc.org 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on europepmc.org 5/20
- Apple Business · not on europepmc.org 5/20
- Atlassian · not on europepmc.org 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on europepmc.org 4/20
- OpenAI · not on europepmc.org 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on europepmc.org 4/20
- Drupal · not on europepmc.org 3/20