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MDPI

Who runs MDPI, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open-access academic publishing alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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Online since
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Trackers
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Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
Hindawi Publishing Corporation

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs MDPI

MDPI mdpi.com

Wikidata: publisher of open-access scientific journals

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience

02 · Privacy

What MDPI tracks

We couldn’t read mdpi.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to MDPI

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

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20 of the 60 sites closest to MDPI match.

We can’t read mdpi.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    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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  2. 02
    Springer Nature springernature.com 3 trackers

    Springer Nature

    We are a global publisher dedicated to providing the best possible service to the whole research community. We help authors to share their discoveries; enable researchers to find, access and understand the work of others and support librarians and institutions with innovations in technology and data.

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  3. 03
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

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  4. 04
    Elsevier elsevier.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Elsevier | A global leader for advanced information and decision support in science and healthcare

    Elsevier provides advanced information and decision support to accelerate progress in science and healthcare worldwide.

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  5. 05
    Wiley-VCH wiley.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Wiley-VCH - Home

    Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing

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  6. 06
    De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    De Gruyter Brill

    De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

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  7. 07
    Sage Publishing sagepub.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Sage - a global academic publisher of educational resources | Home

    Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and digital resources to support teaching, learning and research

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  8. 08
    Taylor & Francis taylorandfrancis.com English 2 trackers

    Taylor & Francis – Fostering human progress through knowledge

    Taylor & Francis publishes knowledge and specialty research spanning humanities, social sciences, science and technology, engineering, medicine and healthcare.

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  9. 09
    thieme.com English No trackers

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    journal

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  10. 10
    Nature nature.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Nature

    First published in 1869, Nature is the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. Nature publishes the finest peer-reviewed research that drives ground-breaking discovery, and is read by thought-leaders and decision-makers around the world.

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  11. 11
    Routledge routledge.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Routledge - Publisher of Professional & Academic Books

    Routledge is a leading book publisher that fosters human progress through knowledge for scholars, instructors and professionals

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  12. 12
    oup.com Top 1K English 2 trackers

    Homepage - Oxford University Press

    Oxford University Press moves knowledge and learning forward. Discover our products, services, and latest thinking in education and research.

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  13. 13
    lww.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Browse

    book publishing imprint descended in part from J. B. Lippincott & Co. and Lea Brothers

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  14. 14
    Scholarpedia Journal scholarpedia.org No trackers

    peer-reviewed open-access journal

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  15. 15
    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.

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  16. 16
    Everand everand.com English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    digital library

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  17. 17
    Ghost ghost.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform

    Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

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  18. 18
    Readly readly.com 1 tracker

    Readly

    magazine subscription service

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  19. 19
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

    Compare Zotero with MDPI →
  20. 20
    EBSCO Information Services ebsco.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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

    Compare EBSCO Information Services with MDPI →

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MDPI 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 · 6 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,197
Vector
384-d
Query
47 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to MDPI’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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