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bioRxiv

Who runs bioRxiv, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest preprint server alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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01 · 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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to bioRxiv

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to bioRxiv, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than bioRxivNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to bioRxiv match.

  1. 01
    medRxiv medrxiv.org Top 10K English 2 trackers

    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

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  2. 02
    Research Square researchsquare.com English 1 tracker

    Home | Research Square

    Research Square is a preprint platform that makes research communication faster, fairer, and more useful.

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  3. 03
    arXiv arxiv.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    arXiv.org e-Print archive

    online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers

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  4. 04
    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Zenodo

    research data repository

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  5. 05
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

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  6. 06
    RePEc repec.org Top 10K No trackers

    RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

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

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  7. 07
    Scholarpedia Journal scholarpedia.org No trackers

    peer-reviewed open-access journal

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  8. 08
    SciELO Brasil scielo.br Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Brazil

    digital library

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  9. 09
    frontiersin.org Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

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  10. 10
    LibreTexts libretexts.org English No trackers

    Home | LibreTexts

    open access educational resource collection

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  11. 11
    OpenAlex openalex.org English No trackers

    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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  12. 12
    Wikibooks wikibooks.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Wikibooks

    free multilingual online collection of textbooks

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  13. 13
    Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Our World in Data

    Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

    Compare Our World in Data with bioRxiv →
  14. 14
    SolidJS solidjs.com No trackers

    A declarative, efficient and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

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  15. 15
    Curlie curlie.org No trackers

    Curlie - The Collector of URLs

    Curlie directory - Collector of URLs

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  16. 16
    Redalyc redalyc.org 1 tracker

    Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc, Red de Revistas Científicas

    Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc. Red de Revistas Científicas. Acceso abierto sin fines de lucro propiedad de la academia. Modelo de acceso abierto diamante.

    Compare Redalyc with bioRxiv →
  17. 17
    nginx nginx.org Top 100 No trackers

    nginx

    open source web server and a reverse proxy server

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  18. 18
    React react.dev English 1 tracker

    React

    React is the library for web and native user interfaces. Build user interfaces out of individual pieces called components written in JavaScript. React is designed to let you seamlessly combine components written by independent people, teams, and organizations.

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  19. 19
    Docusaurus docusaurus.io English 1 tracker

    Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content | Docusaurus

    An optimized site generator in React. Docusaurus helps you to move fast and write content. Build documentation websites, blogs, marketing pages, and more.

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  20. 20
    Svelte svelte.dev English No trackers

    Svelte • Web development for the rest of us

    Web development for the rest of us

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04 · 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 = 60
Sites searched
9,213
Vector
384-d
Query
56 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.

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