Alternatives and competitors
Sites like frontiersin.org
The 20 closest Open access academic publishing alternatives to frontiersin.org, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 14 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to frontiersin.org? The closest matches are MDPI, Springer Science+Business Media and De Gruyter Brill. 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 frontiersin.org
frontiersin.org
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.
Wikidata: academic publisher of peer-reviewed, open access journals
Summary by Claude
Frontiers publishes peer-reviewed open access scientific journals across many disciplines, with manuscript submission, peer review, editor tools, research topic collections and a data publishing service.
- Who it’s for
- Academic researchers, authors, editors and institutions
- Business model
- Article processing charges
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to frontiersin.org’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 frontiersin.org
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to frontiersin.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
publisher of open-access scientific journals
Very close cos 0.932 - 02
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close cos 0.930 - 03
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.923 - 04
digital journal platform
Very close cos 0.921 - 05
academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences
Very close cos 0.913 - 06
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.912 - 07
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 0.911 - 08
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close cos 0.908 - 09
Egyptian scientific publisher
Very close cos 0.906 - 10
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.907 - 11
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.
Very close cos 0.903 - 12
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close cos 0.901 - 13
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close cos 0.900 - 14
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Very close cos 0.899 - 15 Very close cos 0.896
- 16
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 0.898 - 17
peer-reviewed medical journal
Very close cos 0.897 - 18
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.
- Google Search Console
- Microsoft 365
- New Relic
- Salesforce
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Apache HTTP Server
Very close cos 0.898 - 19 Very close cos 0.895
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academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Very close cos 0.896
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to frontiersin.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones frontiersin.org uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What frontiersin.org is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com inc…
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Azure Front Door header x-azure-ref: 20261106T091443Z-r1f5d5b555crnn28hC1BER13000000000zk0000000…
- Languages & backends
- Express header x-powered-by: Express
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com inc…
- Microsoft 365 MX frontiersin-org.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- Brevo TXT brevo-code:375d739daabaaac1ee147f5c8d13908e
- DNS hosting
- Azure DNS NS ns2-38.azure-dns.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Klks0QZdzge0dkgm5EHXPs1ZDQAWSjLNdy_Ymz8HqLM
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=aj5mh5hnxv1l38dfkokwmfoxjms0wo
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-kQjjARJlWXcmpc1VVpQodjUG
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com inc…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what frontiersin.org adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on frontiersin.org 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on frontiersin.org 9/20
- Atlassian · not on frontiersin.org 8/20
- Meta Business Suite 6/20
- Salesforce 6/20
- Fastly · not on frontiersin.org 5/20
- Apple Business · not on frontiersin.org 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on frontiersin.org 4/20
- OneTrust · not on frontiersin.org 4/20
- Proofpoint · not on frontiersin.org 4/20
- SendGrid · not on frontiersin.org 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on frontiersin.org 4/20
- HubSpot · not on frontiersin.org 3/20
- Adobe · not on frontiersin.org 3/20