Crossref

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Crossref

Crossref crossref.org

Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.

Wikidata: one of the official Digital Object Identifier Registration Agencies of the International DOI Foundation

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

Top 10K In English

02 · Privacy

What Crossref 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.

20 of the 60 sites closest to Crossref match.

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   DataCite datacite.org English No trackers

   DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite

   international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation

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   ORCID orcid.org Top 10K English No trackers

   ORCID

   non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers

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   DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English No trackers

   Home Page

   API endpoint

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   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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   Handle System handle.net Top 10K No trackers

   Handle.Net Registry

   Handle.Net Registry is a DONA MPA.

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   ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

   ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

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   w3id.org English No trackers

   w3id.org - Permanent Identifiers for the Web

   Secure, permanent URLs for your Web application that will stand the test of time.

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   inria.fr Top 10K English No trackers

   Making sure you're not a bot!

   French research institution in computer science

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   OCLC oclc.org Top 10K English No trackers

   global library cooperative

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    OpenStack openstack.org English No trackers

    Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - OpenStack

    Deployed by thousands. Proven production at scale. OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.

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    Liberapay liberapay.com English No trackers

    Liberapay

    We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.

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    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

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    ClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrials.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    ClinicalTrials.gov

    United States government registry of clinical trials

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    United States Patent and Trademark Office uspto.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    United States Patent and Trademark Office

    Home page of the United States Patent and Trademark Office's main web site.

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    Grants.gov grants.gov English No trackers

    Home | Grants.gov

    USA federal website

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    SURF surf.nl English No trackers

    SURF is the collaborative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research | SURF.nl

    More than 100 education and research institutions in the Netherlands work together in the SURF cooperative to fully utilise the opportunities of digitalisation. Our goal: improved and more flexible education and research.

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    DFN dfn.de Top 10K English No trackers

    Home - DFN

    German association for academic research

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    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    Privacy Guides

    Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

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    Fight for the Future fightforthefuture.org English No trackers

    Fight for the Future

    Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]

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    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Crossref’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Crossref uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Crossref 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.