Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Sage Publishing
The 20 closest academic publishing alternatives to Sage Publishing, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 14 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Sage Publishing? The closest matches are De Gruyter Brill, JSTOR and Routledge. 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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 17 ms
01 · Entity
About Sage Publishing
Sage Publishing sagepub.com
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
Wikidata: U.S. scientific publisher
Summary by Claude
Sage is an independent academic publisher of scholarly journals, textbooks, reference books and digital research resources, with a focus on social and behavioral sciences.
- Who it’s for
- Researchers, academics, students, librarians
- Business model
- Journal subscriptions, book sales, open-access fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Sage Publishing’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 Sage Publishing
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Sage Publishing, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.927 - 02
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.912 - 03
Routledge - Publisher of Professional & Academic Books
Routledge is a leading book publisher that fosters human progress through knowledge for scholars, instructors and professionals
Very close cos 0.897 - 04
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close cos 0.898 - 05
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.896 - 06
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 0.891 - 07
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.
Close cos 0.891 - 08
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.
Close cos 0.888 - 09
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Close cos 0.885 - 10
digital journal platform
Close cos 0.885 - 11
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Close cos 0.883 - 12
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Close cos 0.882 - 13
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
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Apache HTTP Server
- Font Awesome
- Google Ad Manager
Close cos 0.883 - 14
non-teaching department of the University of Cambridge
Close cos 0.876 - 15
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 0.877 - 16
ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
Close cos 0.878 - 17
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.
Close cos 0.878 - 18
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Close cos 0.880 - 19
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.
Close cos 0.875 - 20
Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
- GlobalSign
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Tag Manager
- Amazon Route 53
Close cos 0.876
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to sagepub.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Sage Publishing uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Sage Publishing is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://www.sagepub.com/sfrenderer/scripts/bootstrap.bundle.min.js?package_name=Global&ve…
- Analytics
- PostHog page source: posthog.init(
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lottie-web/5.12.2/lottie.min.js
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fafa8aace96b-HAM
- Languages & backends
- ASP.NET header x-powered-by: ASP.NET
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX sagepub-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:sendgrid.net includ…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS amy.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=wXXY2b3jDpAyZxC4
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=6sElNFKvMPUJcTgu0Z1hdkN56mKCgMiQ0fLCMn8…
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=LOWe8o5b8M5jF91_NdqFCcp55JzNqaG9vaYxp…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=rh_BruBYHChczaA83r0CSK1GvqakaJweN_5X_J5ZaQw
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=7df65pnngad8yfu9h3cd2r0z2t22ar
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Sage Publishing adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Apple Business 10/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Salesforce · not on sagepub.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on sagepub.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on sagepub.com 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on sagepub.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on sagepub.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on sagepub.com 5/20
- Zendesk · not on sagepub.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on sagepub.com 5/20