Sites like MDPI

01 · Entity

About MDPI

MDPI mdpi.com

Wikidata: publisher of open-access scientific journals

Top 1K · #618 6 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

MDPI publishes several hundred peer-reviewed open-access scientific journals across disciplines, funded by article processing charges paid by authors.

Who it’s for

Researchers, academics and scientists

Business model

Article processing charges

• open-access academic publishing
• open-access journals
• peer-reviewed articles
• manuscript submission
• special issues
• article processing charges
• scientific research papers
• journal indexing

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to MDPI’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.

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

1. 01
   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.

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   • Express

   0 say frontiersin.org is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say frontiersin.org isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.932
2. 02
   Hindawi Publishing Corporation hindawi.com Top 10K English

   Egyptian scientific publisher

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   • Proofpoint

   0 say Hindawi Publishing Corporation is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say Hindawi Publishing Corporation isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.907
3. 03
   Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English

   Client Challenge

   global publishing company

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   0 say Springer Science+Business Media is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say Springer Science+Business Media isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.906
4. 04
   De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English

   De Gruyter Brill

   De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

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   • Brevo

   0 say De Gruyter Brill is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say De Gruyter Brill isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.906
5. 05
   ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K English

   ScienceDirect

   journal

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   • GlobalSign

   0 say ScienceDirect is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say ScienceDirect isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.902
6. 06
   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.

   • Atlassian
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   0 say Nature is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say Nature isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.899
7. 07
   arXiv arxiv.org Top 1K English

   arXiv.org e-Print archive

   online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers

   • Apple Business
   • Fastly
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   • Google Workspace
   • Mailchimp

   0 say arXiv is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say arXiv isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.896
8. 08
   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.

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   • Apple Business

   0 say PLOS is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say PLOS isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

   Comment
   Close cos 0.894
9. 09
   pnas.org Top 10K English

   academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences

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   • SendGrid

   0 say pnas.org is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say pnas.org isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.894
10. 10
    jamanetwork.com Top 10K English

    peer-reviewed medical journal

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    • Meta Business Suite
    • Proofpoint

    0 say jamanetwork.com is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say jamanetwork.com isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

    Comment
    Close cos 0.890
11. 11
    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

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    0 say medRxiv is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say medRxiv isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

    Comment
    Close cos 0.890
12. 12
    JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    distributor of eBooks and other digital media

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    • OpenAI

    0 say JSTOR is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say JSTOR isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

    Comment
    Close cos 0.887
13. 13
    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

    Zenodo

    research data repository

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    • Matomo
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    0 say Zenodo is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say Zenodo isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

    Comment
    Close cos 0.886
14. 14
    Cell cell.com Top 10K English

    scientific journal

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    • Miro

    0 say Cell is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say Cell isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

    Comment
    Close cos 0.884
15. 15
    Taylor & Francis Online tandfonline.com Top 1K English

    digital journal platform

    • Cloudflare DNS
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    • Dropbox
    • Meta Business Suite

    0 say Taylor & Francis Online is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say Taylor & Francis Online isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

    Comment
    Close cos 0.883
16. 16
    Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English

    Our World in Data

    Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

    • Cloudflare DNS
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    • Google Workspace

    0 say Our World in Data is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say Our World in Data isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

    Comment
    Close cos 0.882
17. 17
    Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org Top 10K English

    database of biomedical research

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    0 say Europe PubMed Central is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say Europe PubMed Central isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

    Comment
    Close cos 0.879
18. 18
    proquest.com Top 10K

    set of journals

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    • DocuSign

    0 say proquest.com is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say proquest.com isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

    Comment
    Close cos 0.878
19. 19
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

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    • Mailgun
    • Mailchimp Transactional

    0 say OSF is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say OSF isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

    Comment
    Close cos 0.877
20. 20
    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.

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    0 say EurekAlert! is a good alternative to MDPI 0 say EurekAlert! isn’t a real alternative to MDPI

    Comment
    Close cos 0.878

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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