Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Springer Science+Business Media
The 20 closest academic publishing alternatives to Springer Science+Business Media, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 15 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Springer Science+Business Media? The closest matches are De Gruyter Brill, frontiersin.org and ScienceDirect. 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 Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media springer.com
Client Challenge
Wikidata: global publishing company
Summary by Claude
Springer publishes and sells academic books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, medicine and humanities, with online access to its content and author submission services.
- Who it’s for
- Researchers, academics, libraries, students
- Business model
- Book sales, journal subscriptions, open access fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Springer Science+Business Media’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 Springer Science+Business Media
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Springer Science+Business Media, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.945 - 02
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.
Very close cos 0.930 - 03
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.924 - 04
digital journal platform
Very close cos 0.917 - 05
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.918 - 06
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Very close cos 0.913 - 07
Egyptian scientific publisher
Very close cos 0.907 - 08
peer-reviewed medical journal
Very close cos 0.907 - 09
publisher of open-access scientific journals
Very close cos 0.906 - 10
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.
Very close cos 0.906 - 11
Content Blocked
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers and related content
Very close cos 0.903 - 12
Business Insider - Latest News in Tech, Markets, Economy & Innovation
Business Insider tells the global tech, finance, stock market, media, economy, lifestyle, real estate, AI and innovative stories you want to know.
Very close cos 0.905 - 13
academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences
Very close cos 0.903 - 14
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
Very close cos 0.903 - 15
open repository of academic articles
Very close cos 0.901 - 16
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
Very close cos 0.903 - 17
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close cos 0.904 - 18
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close cos 0.900 - 19
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 0.898 - 20
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.
Very close cos 0.898
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to springer.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Springer Science+Business Media uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Springer Science+Business Media is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=340cbe9c178446e792ce7ec4909e6415
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080058-BER, cache-ber1080049-BER
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:192.87.127.46/32 ip4:192.87.127.47/32 ip4:188.94.250.251/3…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms78204475
- Proofpoint MX mxb-002c5801.gslb.pphosted.com
- DNS hosting
- UltraDNS NS pdns6.ultradns.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=e7d316e26179ad0d4b3f90cf2a0754eec7efe5ffd…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=8YyRB1dGCFU6FTIcUt18raWzPoKaOFUG7xiFOka…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=QMeoXyxix_xid1U4yQwMXA
- DocuSign TXT docusign=b91742f4-1de7-49c0-8419-c6e7b8df9153
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=DxtJ51OaIp87_OgmKu-iPxmFMN4i0CvhJtymIz…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=r-mNXFlbTzOLf3U-9CwvQ9y5x-VteDkSgSBxFITB9_w
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=1kaxt38kjanljujwoetwnrpbzs1s3r
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-zwKNWCwczk2MoUWFGoVrnsCz
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:192.87.127.46/32 ip4:192.87.127.47/32 ip4:188.94.250.251/3…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Springer Science+Business Media adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on springer.com 10/20
- Atlassian 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on springer.com 8/20
- GlobalSign 8/20
- Apple Business · not on springer.com 7/20
- OpenAI 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on springer.com 5/20
- Salesforce 5/20
- Google Workspace 5/20
- Zendesk · not on springer.com 5/20
- Adobe 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on springer.com 4/20
- Fastly 4/20