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PeerJ

Who runs PeerJ, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Open access academic publishing alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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Trackers
Prices
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Last price change
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01 · 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

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Fewer trackers than PeerJNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to PeerJ match.

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

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

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  3. 03
    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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  4. 04
    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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    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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  6. 06
    thieme.com English No trackers

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    Scholarpedia Journal scholarpedia.org No trackers

    peer-reviewed open-access journal

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  8. 08
    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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  9. 09
    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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  10. 10
    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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    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.

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  12. 12
    Everand everand.com English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    digital library

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  13. 13
    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

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  14. 14
    Substack substack.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Substack

    Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.

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  15. 15
    Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    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.

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    Dimensions dimensions.ai English 1 tracker

    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.

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    Odoo odoo.com Top 1K English No trackers

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    Gale gale.com No trackers

    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.

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    PRWeb prweb.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

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    Press release distribution helps you create buzz, increase online visibility and drive website traffic.

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    Audible audible.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Audible | Listen to Audiobooks, Podcasts, & Originals

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04 · 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
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
43 ms

Competitor map

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