Sites like ORCID

01 · Entity

About ORCID

ORCID orcid.org

ORCID

Wikidata: non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers

Top 10K · #1,852 English 11 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

ORCID issues free persistent digital identifiers to researchers and maintains a registry that links them to their publications, grants, affiliations and other scholarly work, with integrations for publishers, funders and institutions.

Who it’s for

Researchers, universities, publishers and funders

Business model

Institutional membership fees

• researcher identifier registry
• ORCID iD
• researcher identifier
• publication record
• author disambiguation
• scholarly profile
• research metadata API
• institutional membership

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to ORCID’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 orcid.org’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

1. 01
   DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English

   Home Page

   API endpoint

   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Amazon SES
   • Bootstrap
   • Amazon CloudFront
   • Font Awesome

   0 say DOI.org query endpoint is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say DOI.org query endpoint isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

   Comment
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2. 02
   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
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Cloudflare Web Analytics
   • Google Tag Manager

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

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3. 03
   Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

   Zenodo

   research data repository

   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Google Search Console
   • Microsoft 365
   • cdnjs
   • Matomo
   • nginx

   0 say Zenodo is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say Zenodo isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

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4. 04
   JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English

   Client Challenge

   distributor of eBooks and other digital media

   • Google Search Console
   • Microsoft 365
   • Zendesk
   • Fastly
   • GlobalSign
   • Meta Business Suite

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

   Comment
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5. 05
   OSF osf.io Top 10K English

   OSF

   tools that make open science practice easier

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Cloud DNS
   • Mailchimp
   • Mailgun
   • Mailchimp Transactional

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

   Comment
   Close cos 0.882
6. 06
   Crossref crossref.org Top 10K English

   Crossref

   Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.

   • Amazon Web Services
   • Google Workspace
   • Microsoft 365
   • Zendesk
   • Algolia
   • Amazon SES

   0 say Crossref is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say Crossref isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

   Comment
   Close cos 0.875
7. 07
   WorldCat worldcat.org Top 10K English

   WorldCat.org

   WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.

   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Adobe Experience Manager
   • Cloudflare Web Analytics
   • Google Tag Manager
   • Meta Business Suite

   0 say WorldCat is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say WorldCat isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

   Comment
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8. 08
   Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org Top 10K English

   database of biomedical research

   • Cloudflare
   • Amazon Route 53

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

   Comment
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9. 09
   United States Copyright Office copyright.gov Top 10K English

   U.S. Copyright Office | U.S. Copyright Office

   Copyright Office Homepage

   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Google Search Console
   • Microsoft 365
   • Adobe Experience Platform Tags
   • Amazon SES

   0 say United States Copyright Office is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say United States Copyright Office isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

   Comment
   Close cos 0.875
10. 10
    De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English

    De Gruyter Brill

    De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

    • Apple Business
    • Google Search Console
    • Microsoft 365
    • Salesforce
    • Atlassian
    • Bootstrap

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

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11. 11
    ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K English

    ScienceDirect

    journal

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Microsoft 365
    • GlobalSign

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

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12. 12
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

    • Microsoft 365
    • Amazon SES
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • Amazon Route 53

    0 say Zotero is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say Zotero isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

    Comment
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13. 13
    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

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Google Search Console
    • Microsoft 365
    • Drupal
    • Font Awesome

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

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14. 14
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

    Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

    Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

    • Google Search Console
    • Bing Webmaster Tools
    • Matomo
    • nginx

    0 say Open Library is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say Open Library isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

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15. 15
    oecd.org Top 10K English

    intergovernmental economic organization

    • Apple Business
    • Cloudflare
    • Google Search Console
    • Microsoft 365
    • Adobe
    • Azure DNS

    0 say oecd.org is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say oecd.org isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

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16. 16
    Smithsonian Institution si.edu Top 10K English

    Smithsonian request verification

    group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government

    • Apple Business
    • Cloudflare
    • Google Search Console
    • Microsoft 365
    • Adobe
    • Akamai Edge DNS

    0 say Smithsonian Institution is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say Smithsonian Institution isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

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17. 17
    Wikidata wikidata.org Top 10K English

    Wikidata

    free multilingual online knowledge graph

    • Google Search Console

    0 say Wikidata is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say Wikidata isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

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18. 18
    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Microsoft 365
    • Salesforce
    • Atlassian
    • nginx

    0 say Internet Archive is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say Internet Archive isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

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19. 19
    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.

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Microsoft 365
    • Salesforce
    • Zendesk
    • Azure DNS

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

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20. 20
    RFC Editor rfc-editor.org Top 1K English

    RFC Editor

    The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Nuxt
    • Vue.js

    0 say RFC Editor is a good alternative to ORCID 0 say RFC Editor isn’t a real alternative to ORCID

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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