peerj.com
PeerJ
Who runs PeerJ, 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
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- MDPI
Measured from PeerJ’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit PeerJ01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs PeerJ
PeerJ peerj.com
Trusted by researchers, committed to open. PeerJ delivers open-access publishing with transparent peer review across two STM and computer science journals.
Wikidata: academic publisher based in United States
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What PeerJ 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
8 of the 11 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to PeerJ
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to PeerJ, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to PeerJ match.
- 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
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close - 03
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Very close - 04
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close - 05
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 - 06
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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
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 - 09
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.
Very close - 10
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close - 11
Client Challenge
digital library
Close - 12
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 - 13
Substack
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
Close - 14
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.
Close - 15
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.
Close - 16
Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
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Close - 17
Online Press Release Distribution Service | PRWeb
Press release distribution helps you create buzz, increase online visibility and drive website traffic.
Close - 18
Audible | Listen to Audiobooks, Podcasts, & Originals
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Close - 19
Tolstoy.ai
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Typst: The new foundation for documents
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles PeerJ’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones PeerJ 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 PeerJ 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to PeerJ’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
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577ce6bcb75471d-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms80673274
- Mimecast MX us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS logan.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=acht35g3lt8j
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=ZJwF5bPmVIwVGPvLaYi-GflAOROdB74UcXDqM…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=GX_AqkC_uUrShEF_5g1ZDFKq29WgLSMuvW6bnciOSz0
- Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: 03e534a1ce985c89
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Atlassian · not on peerj.com 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- Apple Business · not on peerj.com 8/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on peerj.com 8/20
- OneTrust · not on peerj.com 8/20
- Adobe · not on peerj.com 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on peerj.com 6/20
- DocuSign · not on peerj.com 6/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- HubSpot · not on peerj.com 4/20
- jQuery · not on peerj.com 4/20
- SendGrid · not on peerj.com 4/20
- Salesforce · not on peerj.com 4/20