Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Routledge
The 20 closest academic publishing alternatives to Routledge, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 16 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Routledge? The closest matches are De Gruyter Brill, Sage Publishing and oup.com. 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 Routledge
Routledge routledge.com
Routledge - Publisher of Professional & Academic Books
Routledge is a leading book publisher that fosters human progress through knowledge for scholars, instructors and professionals
Wikidata: British multinational academic publisher founded in 1836
Summary by Claude
Routledge is a British academic publisher of books, textbooks and journals, mainly in the humanities, social sciences, education, behavioural science and law. The site sells its books directly and lets instructors request inspection copies of textbooks.
- Who it’s for
- Scholars, instructors, students and professionals
- Business model
- Book sales and academic publishing
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Routledge’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 Routledge
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Routledge, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.902 - 02
Sage - a global academic publisher of educational resources | Home
Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and digital resources to support teaching, learning and research
Very close cos 0.897 - 03
Homepage - Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press moves knowledge and learning forward. Discover our products, services, and latest thinking in education and research.
Close cos 0.890 - 04
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Close cos 0.887 - 05
Times Higher Education home | Times Higher Education (THE)
Provides global higher education coverage. Find world university rankings, news, opinions, features and book reviews.
Close cos 0.885 - 06
non-teaching department of the University of Cambridge
Close cos 0.870 - 07
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Close cos 0.871 - 08
digital journal platform
Close cos 0.869 - 09
ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
Close cos 0.870 - 10
British scientific society
Close cos 0.864 - 11
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Close cos 0.868 - 12
Pearson | The World's Leading Education Provider
Discover all Pearson has to offer for every step of your learning journey.
Close cos 0.863 - 13
Penguin Random House
Committed to publishing great books, connecting readers and authors globally, and spreading the love of reading.
Close cos 0.862 - 14
Elsevier | A global leader for advanced information and decision support in science and healthcare
Elsevier provides advanced information and decision support to accelerate progress in science and healthcare worldwide.
Close cos 0.863 - 15
Browse
book publishing imprint descended in part from J. B. Lippincott & Co. and Lea Brothers
Close cos 0.861 - 16
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Close cos 0.865 - 17
Studocu - Access Blocked
On Studocu you find all the lecture notes, summaries and study guides you need to pass your exams with better grades.
Close cos 0.859 - 18
ScienceDirect
journal
Close cos 0.862 - 19
online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Close cos 0.860 - 20
Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian
Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
Close cos 0.863
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to routledge.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Routledge uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Routledge is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://www.routledge.com/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js
- Font Awesome asset https://kit-free.fontawesome.com/
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Serif:400&display=swap
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- A/B testing
- Optimizely page source: cdn.optimizely.com/js/
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a563190b08bb62d1-HAM
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/select2@3.5.1/select2.min.js
- Languages & backends
- PHP cookie PHPSESSID
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms15913158
- Mimecast MX us-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:52.31.198.36 ip4:52.31.209.56 ip4:34.240.88.199 ip4:52.16…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS daisy.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: WEbYPt5KipdKE58rhrkg6tHoXzteac8Rio6a6z1EDek
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Routledge adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Atlassian · not on routledge.com 14/20
- Apple Business · not on routledge.com 12/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on routledge.com 10/20
- GlobalSign · not on routledge.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on routledge.com 9/20
- OneTrust · not on routledge.com 9/20
- Adobe · not on routledge.com 8/20
- OpenAI · not on routledge.com 7/20
- Miro · not on routledge.com 6/20
- Canva · not on routledge.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on routledge.com 5/20