figshare.com
Figshare
Who runs Figshare, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest research data repository alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Zenodo
Measured from Figshare’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Figshare01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Figshare
Figshare figshare.com
Wikidata: research output digital online sharing platform; operated by Figshare LLP, part of Digital Science
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What Figshare tracks
We couldn’t read figshare.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Figshare
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Figshare, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read figshare.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Zenodo
research data repository
Very close - 02
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close - 03
Dryad | Publish and preserve your data
American nonprofit organization; oversees Dryad Digital Repository
Very close - 04 Dataverse dataverse.org
open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data
Very close - 05
PeerJ - Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journals, Trusted by Researchers
Trusted by researchers, committed to open. PeerJ delivers open-access publishing with transparent peer review across two STM and computer science journals.
Very close - 06
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close - 07 proquest.com Top 10K
set of journals
Very close - 08
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.
Very close - 09
publisher of open-access scientific journals
Very close - 10
Dimensions AI | The most advanced scientific research database
From idea to impact: Quickly navigate and connect grants, publications, datasets, clinical trials, patents, and policy documents.
Very close - 11
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close - 12
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close - 13 Mendeley mendeley.com
reference management software; product of Elsevier
Close - 14 Preprints.org preprints.org
open-access repository
Very close - 15
Gale: Historical Archive, Educational & Library Resources
Gale, part of Cengage Group, provides historical archive, library solutions, and trusted educational resources for academic, K-12, and public libraries.
Close - 16
EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery Service
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions
Close - 17
open repository of academic articles
Very close - 18
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Close - 19
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close - 20
Posit | Data Science Platform for Enterprise Teams
Posit is the enterprise data science platform trusted by 52 of the Fortune 100. Develop, deploy, and govern R and Python workflows and AI-powered applications, with the speed data teams need and the governance IT requires.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Figshare’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Figshare 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 Figshare 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 · 8 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 Figshare’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
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:servers.…
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services header server: awselb/2.0
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms64885905
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:servers.…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1455.awsdns-53.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=vujOqKgTa3qfzkMqa3sYB93w6sf0XaNYcystg60…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=dn9vDb-I1ZzOWXtlXJjg48d6zAtC85AQs5t5XWNpws4
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 11/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- Salesforce · not on figshare.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on figshare.com 5/20
- Amazon SES 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on figshare.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on figshare.com 5/20
- Apple Business · not on figshare.com 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on figshare.com 4/20
- DocuSign · not on figshare.com 4/20
- OneTrust · not on figshare.com 4/20
- OpenAI · not on figshare.com 4/20
- Proofpoint · not on figshare.com 4/20