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DataCite
Who runs DataCite, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest persistent identifier registration alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Crossref
Measured from DataCite’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit DataCite01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs DataCite
DataCite datacite.org
Wikidata: international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What DataCite 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
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 14 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
- EU company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to DataCite
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to DataCite, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Crossref
Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.
Very close - 02
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close - 03
ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
Very close - 04
Handle.Net Registry
Handle.Net Registry is a DONA MPA.
Very close - 05
w3id.org - Permanent Identifiers for the Web
Secure, permanent URLs for your Web application that will stand the test of time.
Very close - 06
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close - 07
.ORG - Power Your Inspiration. Connect Your World.
For diverse global communities & individuals who want to do great things online, .ORG is purpose-driven to empower & connect those who inspire the world.
Very close - 08
Afnic, Internet domain name registry solution Home - Afnic
Afnic is the Internet registry for .fr (France), .re (Ile de la Réunion), .pm (Saint-Pierre et Miquelon), .yt (Mayotte), .wf and .tf domain names.
Very close - 09
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 10
AAAS Home | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
international non-profit organization promoting science
Very close - 11
American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARIN is a nonprofit, member-based organization that administers IP addresses & ASNs in support of the operation and growth of the Internet.
Very close - 12
SINTEF - Applied research, technology and innovation
SINTEF is one of Europe's largest independent research organisations. Every year we carry out several thousand projects for customers large and small.
Very close - 13
MLCommons - Standardize AI Measurement, Enable Informed Decisions
MLCommons develops and operates industrial-quality AI benchmarks with industry and academia - measuring quality, performance, safety, and cost so the market can make informed AI decisions.
Very close - 14
global library cooperative
Very close - 15
APNIC
A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves the entire Asia Pacific community
Very close - 16
AFRINIC - Regional Internet Registry for Africa
AFRINIC is responsible for the allocation and management of Internet numbers (IPv4, IPv6 & ASNs) resources in Africa.
Very close - 17
NIC.DO – .DO Domain Registration
Internet country-code top level domain for the Dominican Republic
Very close - 18
Gapminder
Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker (1948–2017)
Very close - 19
Dryad | Publish and preserve your data
American nonprofit organization; oversees Dryad Digital Repository
Very close - 20
DENIC eG: DENIC – Registry for all .de domains
As the registry, DENIC manages all .de domains and ensures that they are accessible at all times.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles DataCite’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones DataCite 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 DataCite 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 · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to DataCite’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
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://datacite.org/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://datacite.org/wp-content/themes/mohito-2/assets/bootstrap.bundle.min.js?ver=5.0.2
- Font Awesome asset https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v6.4.0/css/all.css
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Barlow:ital,wght@0,100;0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0…
- Analytics
- Plausible asset https://plausible.io/js/pa-nz-bQtDn3P9JDJLgv4pH2.js
- CDN
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms60825367
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1784.awsdns-31.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ME0kuUk0winoKwqU5AaDcvofMdDB6M7VjcSD1xFoN68
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_s…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 13/20
- Cloudflare · not on datacite.org 10/20
- jQuery 9/20
- PHP 9/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- WordPress 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on datacite.org 5/20
- Bootstrap 5/20
- Font Awesome 5/20
- Google Workspace 5/20
- Google Fonts 5/20
- Atlassian · not on datacite.org 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on datacite.org 5/20
- cdnjs 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on datacite.org 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on datacite.org 4/20