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Sites like Taylor & Francis Online

The 20 closest Academic publishing alternatives to Taylor & Francis Online, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Taylor & Francis Online? The closest matches are frontiersin.org, De Gruyter Brill and Springer Science+Business Media. 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 Taylor & Francis Online

Taylor & Francis Online tandfonline.com

Wikidata: digital journal platform

Top 1K · #547 English 8 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Taylor & Francis Online

Summary by Claude

Taylor & Francis Online is the publisher's platform for academic journals. It provides access to peer-reviewed articles across the humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine, by subscription or open access.

Who it’s for
Academic researchers, students, libraries
Business model
Journal subscriptions and open access fees

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Taylor & Francis Online’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

pnas.orgjamanetwork.comEncyclopædia Britannica OnlineThe AtlanticMediumScienceDirectJSTORSpringer Science+Business MediaDe Gruyter Brillfrontiersin.org

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Taylor & Francis Online

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Taylor & Francis Online, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English

We can’t read tandfonline.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    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.

  2. 02
    De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English

    De Gruyter Brill

    De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

  3. 03
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

  4. 04
    JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    distributor of eBooks and other digital media

  5. 05
    ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K English

    ScienceDirect

    journal

  6. 06
    Medium medium.com Top 1K English

    online publishing platform

  7. 07
    The Atlantic theatlantic.com Top 10K English

    Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic

    magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.

  8. 08
    Encyclopædia Britannica Online britannica.com Top 1K English

    online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica

  9. 09
    jamanetwork.com Top 10K English

    peer-reviewed medical journal

  10. 10
    pnas.org Top 10K English

    academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences

  11. 11
    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.

  12. 12
    oup.com Top 1K English

    Homepage - Oxford University Press

    Oxford University Press moves knowledge and learning forward. Discover our products, services, and latest thinking in education and research.

  13. 13
    Sage Publishing sagepub.com Top 1K English

    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

  14. 14
    Wattpad wattpad.com Top 1K English

    Wattpad - Stories to obsess over

    Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story

  15. 15
    Wiley-VCH wiley.com Top 1K English

    Wiley-VCH - Home

    Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing

  16. 16
    Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English

    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.

  17. 17
    Hindawi Publishing Corporation hindawi.com Top 10K English

    Egyptian scientific publisher

  18. 18
    ResearchGate researchgate.net Top 1K English

    ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable

    commercial scientific social network

  19. 19
    Fur Affinity furaffinity.net Top 10K English

    Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net

    Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!

  20. 20
    Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com Top 10K English

    Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers

    Magazine on CSS, JavaScript, front-end, accessibility, UX and design. For developers, designers and front-end engineers.

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Taylor & Francis Online is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

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