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Sites like Institute of Physics

The 20 closest scientific learned society alternatives to Institute of Physics, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Institute of Physics? The closest matches are American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry. 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 Institute of Physics

Institute of Physics iop.org

Wikidata: GB learned society and professional body

Top 10K · #2,917 English 8 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Institute of Physics

Summary by Claude

The Institute of Physics is a UK-based learned society and professional body for physicists, offering membership, professional accreditation (such as Chartered Physicist), support for physics education and research, and policy work. Its publishing arm, IOP Publishing, produces scientific journals.

Who it’s for
Physicists, physics students, teachers and researchers
Business model
Membership fees and publishing revenue

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Institute of Physics’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.

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EurekAlert!DOI.org query endpointAssociation for Computing MachineryarXivInternational Atomic Energy Agencympg.deHomeInstitute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersRoyal Society of ChemistryAmerican Physical Society

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Institute of Physics

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

Only in English

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

  1. 01
    American Institute of Physics aip.org Top 10K English

    Homepage aip.org - AIP.ORG

    American association of physical science societies

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    American Physical Society aps.org Top 10K English

    American Physical Society

    The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society.

  3. 03
    Royal Society of Chemistry rsc.org Top 10K English

    British scientific society

  4. 04

    American professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering

  5. 05
    Home cern.ch Top 10K English

    Home | CERN

  6. 06
    mpg.de Top 10K English

    Homepage | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

    The Max Planck Society is Germany's premier, non-university research organization dedicated to fundamental research at 85 Max Planck Institutes.

  7. 07
    International Atomic Energy Agency iaea.org Top 10K English

    international organisation

  8. 08
    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

  9. 09
    arXiv arxiv.org Top 1K English

    arXiv.org e-Print archive

    online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers

  10. 10
    Association for Computing Machinery acm.org Top 10K English

    international learned society for computing

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    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English

    Home Page

    API endpoint

  12. 12
    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.

  13. 13

    international standards development organization

  14. 14
    Times Higher Education timeshighereducation.com Top 10K English

    Times Higher Education home | Times Higher Education (THE)

    Provides global higher education coverage. Find world university rankings, news, opinions, features and book reviews.

  15. 15
    De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English

    De Gruyter Brill

    De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

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    Ipsos ipsos.com Top 10K English

    Ipsos | Global Market Research and Public Opinion Specialist

    Global leader in market research, Ipsos delivers reliable information and true understanding of Society, Markets and People. Our solutions use data from surveys, polls, social media or qualitative, and provide actionable insights into the experience and opinions of citizens, consumers, patients, customers, employees.

  17. 17
    pnas.org Top 10K English

    academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences

  18. 18
    oup.com Top 1K English

    Homepage - Oxford University Press

    Oxford University Press moves knowledge and learning forward. Discover our products, services, and latest thinking in education and research.

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    Wiley-VCH wiley.com Top 1K English

    Wiley-VCH - Home

    Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing

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    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.

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Institute of Physics is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

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Email hosting
Email delivery
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  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=h-13dH-mtX3h2aiT1F3Sbx6pLi2f9d1oAg1UzdlU6-E

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