biorxiv.org
bioRxiv
Who runs bioRxiv, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest preprint server alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- medRxiv
Measured from bioRxiv’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit bioRxiv01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs bioRxiv
bioRxiv biorxiv.org
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Wikidata: preprint service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What bioRxiv tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
10 of the 11 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to bioRxiv
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to bioRxiv, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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 - 02
Home | Research Square
Research Square is a preprint platform that makes research communication faster, fairer, and more useful.
Very close - 03 Preprints.org preprints.org
open-access repository
Very close - 04
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close - 05
open access eLibrary; part of Elsevier
Very close - 06 Authorea authorea.com
online collaborative writing tool and research publishing platform
Very close - 07
peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal
Very close - 08
database of biomedical research
Very close - 09
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close - 10
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close - 11 Dataverse dataverse.org
open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data
Close - 12
curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code
Close - 14
peer-reviewed open-access journal
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academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences
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Brazil
digital library
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website providing subscription-based access to a database of scientific and medical research
Close - 18
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 - 19
Home | LibreTexts
open access educational resource collection
Close - 20
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles bioRxiv’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones bioRxiv uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what bioRxiv adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 53 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to bioRxiv’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). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- Drupal header x-generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free@6.7.2/css/all.min.css
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631c617e3962d1-HAM
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org))
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms36527074
- Mimecast MX usb-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS jen.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: lH38pX61A6XH6RNu01u4WWWT9UnF9WhcST6isHEJv-I
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on biorxiv.org 7/20
- Mailgun · not on biorxiv.org 4/20
- Font Awesome 3/20
- PHP 3/20
- Atlassian · not on biorxiv.org 3/20
- Mailchimp Transactional · not on biorxiv.org 3/20
- Zendesk · not on biorxiv.org 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on biorxiv.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on biorxiv.org 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on biorxiv.org 3/20
- Drupal 2/20
- Google Analytics 2/20