PLOS

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs PLOS

PLOS plos.org

Discover how we are transforming scholarly publishing with a mission-driven commitment to open science, research integrity, and innovation that benefits researchers, institutions, and society worldwide.

Wikidata: nonprofit open-access publisher

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

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Audience

Top 10K In English

02 · Privacy

What PLOS 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.

20 of the 60 sites closest to PLOS match.

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   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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   OSF osf.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

   OSF

   tools that make open science practice easier

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   Crossref crossref.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

   Crossref

   Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.

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   WWF wwf.org 1 tracker

   WWF - Find your local WWF office

   WWF is building a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Use our hub page to find your local WWF office.

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   TYPO3 typo3.org English 1 tracker

   TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project

   The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.

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

   Client Challenge

   global publishing company

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   MedlinePlus medlineplus.gov Top 10K English 1 tracker

   MedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine

   Find information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine.

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   MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

   MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

   database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

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   DataCite datacite.org English No trackers

   DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite

   international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation

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    SINTEF sintef.no English 1 tracker

    SINTEF - Applied research, technology and innovation

    SINTEF is one of Europe's largest independent research organisations. Every year we carry out several thousand projects for customers large and small.

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    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

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    OpenStack openstack.org English No trackers

    Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - OpenStack

    Deployed by thousands. Proven production at scale. OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.

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    RIKEN riken.jp Japanese 1 tracker

    理化学研究所

    理化学研究所は、最先端の科学技術をリードする我が国の自然科学の総合研究所として、物理学、工学、化学、数理・情報科学、計算科学、生物学、医科学などに及ぶ広い分野で研究を進めています。

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    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    Privacy Guides

    Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

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    NBER nber.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    National Bureau of Economic Research | NBER

    Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

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    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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    Optica optica.org 1 tracker

    Home | Optica

    Optica is the leading society in optics and photonics. Quality information and inspiring interactions through publications, meetings, and membership.

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    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

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    ClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrials.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    ClinicalTrials.gov

    United States government registry of clinical trials

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    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!

    Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what PLOS 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.