Sites like SSRN

01 · Entity

About SSRN

SSRN ssrn.com

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Wikidata: online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers and related content

Top 10K · #2,081 12 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

SSRN (Social Science Research Network) is an online repository where researchers post and download preprints and working papers, mainly in social sciences, economics, law, and business. It is owned by Elsevier.

Who it’s for

Academic researchers, students, and professionals

Business model

Free access, supported by Elsevier; paid research network partnerships

• preprint repository
• working papers
• preprints
• law research papers
• economics papers
• finance research
• author download rankings
• academic research network

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to SSRN’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 ssrn.com’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

1. 01
   ResearchGate researchgate.net Top 1K English

   ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable

   commercial scientific social network

   • Atlassian
   • Cloudflare
   • Google Search Console
   • Mailchimp
   • Apple Business
   • Cloudflare DNS

   0 say ResearchGate is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say ResearchGate isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.928
2. 02
   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
   • Google Search Console
   • Microsoft 365
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Drupal
   • Font Awesome

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

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.919
3. 03
   Academia.edu academia.edu Top 1K

   open repository of academic articles

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   • OpenAI
   • Amazon Route 53
   • Apple Business
   • Google Workspace

   0 say Academia.edu is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say Academia.edu isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.918
4. 04
   OSF osf.io Top 10K English

   OSF

   tools that make open science practice easier

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

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

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.917
5. 05
   RNP rnp.br Top 10K Portuguese

   RNP | REDE NACIONAL DE ENSINO E PESQUISA

   academic internet backbone organization in Brazil

   • Atlassian
   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare Web Analytics
   • Google Search Console
   • Microsoft 365
   • Amazon Web Services

   0 say RNP is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say RNP isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.906
6. 06
   arXiv arxiv.org Top 1K English

   arXiv.org e-Print archive

   online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers

   • Mailchimp
   • Apple Business
   • Fastly
   • Google Cloud
   • Google Cloud DNS
   • Google Workspace

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

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.906
7. 07
   bioRxiv biorxiv.org Top 10K English

   bioRxiv.org - the preprint server for Biology

   bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication

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

   0 say bioRxiv is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say bioRxiv isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.905
8. 08
   ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K English

   ScienceDirect

   journal

   • Cloudflare
   • Microsoft 365
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • GlobalSign

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

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.906
9. 09
   LinkedIn linkedin.com Top 100 English

   LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up

   1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

   • Atlassian
   • Cloudflare
   • Google Search Console
   • Apple Business
   • Azure DNS
   • DocuSign

   0 say LinkedIn is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say LinkedIn isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.906
10. 10
    DFN dfn.de Top 10K English

    Home - DFN

    German association for academic research

    • Google Search Console
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • Apple Business
    • PHP
    • Plausible
    • WordPress

    0 say DFN is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say DFN isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.902
11. 11
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

    • Adobe
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    • OneTrust
    • OpenAI

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

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.903
12. 12
    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

    Zenodo

    research data repository

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

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

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.902
13. 13
    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.

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

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

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.899
14. 14
    Semantic Scholar semanticscholar.org Top 10K English

    Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool

    Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

    • Google Search Console
    • HubSpot
    • Amazon Route 53
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • Google Analytics
    • Google Fonts

    0 say Semantic Scholar is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say Semantic Scholar isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.895
15. 15
    Elsevier elsevier.com Top 10K English

    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.

    • Adobe
    • Atlassian
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics
    • Google Search Console
    • Microsoft 365

    0 say Elsevier is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say Elsevier isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.894
16. 16
    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.

    • Google Search Console
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    • Microsoft 365
    • Adobe Experience Platform Tags
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • Font Awesome

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

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.897
17. 17
    RePEc repec.org Top 10K

    RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code

    • Amazon SES
    • Google Search Console
    • Apache HTTP Server

    0 say RePEc is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say RePEc isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

    Comment
    Close cos 0.892
18. 18
    Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche cnr.it Top 10K Italian

    Home | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

    Italian national research funding organization

    • Google Search Console
    • Microsoft 365
    • Apple Business
    • Drupal
    • Matomo
    • nginx

    0 say Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

    Comment
    Close cos 0.892
19. 19
    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.

    • Adobe
    • Atlassian
    • Google Search Console
    • Mailchimp
    • Microsoft 365
    • OneTrust

    0 say Nature is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say Nature isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.895
20. 20
    CNRS cnrs.fr Top 10K English

    Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

    Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique est le plus grand organisme public français de recherche scientifique. Il exerce son activité dans

    • Google Search Console
    • Microsoft 365
    • Drupal
    • jQuery
    • Matomo
    • PHP

    0 say CNRS is a good alternative to SSRN 0 say CNRS isn’t a real alternative to SSRN

    Comment
    Close cos 0.892

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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