mdpi.com
MDPI
Who runs MDPI, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open-access academic publishing alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Measured from MDPI’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit MDPI01 · 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.
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.
- 01
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.
Very close - 02
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.
Very close - 03
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close - 04
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.
Very close - 05
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Very close - 06
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close - 07
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
Close - 08
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.
Close - 09
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journal
Very close - 10
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.
Very close - 11
Routledge - Publisher of Professional & Academic Books
Routledge is a leading book publisher that fosters human progress through knowledge for scholars, instructors and professionals
Very close - 12
Homepage - Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press moves knowledge and learning forward. Discover our products, services, and latest thinking in education and research.
Close - 13
Browse
book publishing imprint descended in part from J. B. Lippincott & Co. and Lea Brothers
Close - 14
peer-reviewed open-access journal
Very close - 15
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.
Very close - 16
Client Challenge
digital library
Close - 17
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.
Close - 18
Readly
magazine subscription service
Close - 19
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close - 20
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
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MDPI’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MDPI 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 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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 mx include:spf.mdpi.com include:25322191.spf10.hubspotemail.ne…
- CDN
- Akamai header akamai-grn: 0.091d1002.1793956384.4ce3fa9
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 mx include:spf.mdpi.com include:25322191.spf10.hubspotemail.ne…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS duke.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=B8vS1pMclo3CtNoM1lEBx67CaALcw0VrjLBCUcy…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=5HGq1F7H_WX_Q3Qf85UZh5dEVC0fS5UeSizLzGTyw40
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Atlassian 13/20
- Cloudflare · not on mdpi.com 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- OneTrust · not on mdpi.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on mdpi.com 7/20
- Apple Business · not on mdpi.com 7/20
- Adobe · not on mdpi.com 7/20
- DocuSign · not on mdpi.com 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on mdpi.com 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on mdpi.com 6/20
- Proofpoint · not on mdpi.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on mdpi.com 5/20
- Salesforce · not on mdpi.com 5/20
- jQuery · not on mdpi.com 5/20