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Who runs PLOS, 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
PeerJ

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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
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
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.

trackers that follow visitors

10 of the 13 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
3 tools

  • Advertising and retargeting

    Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to PLOS

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

None of the 60 sites closest to PLOS match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy 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.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 15 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
38 ms

Built with

CMS
JavaScript frameworks
  • React page source: data-reactroot
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://plos.org/wp-content/themes/plos/resources/lib/scripts/jquery-3.5.1.min.js?ver=3.5…
Fonts
Advertising
Marketing automation
  • HubSpot page source: js.hs-scripts.com
CDN
Hosting
  • Kinsta header x-kinsta-cache: HIT
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 mx a ip4:136.147.136.128 ip4:184.23.159.2 ip4:216.74.38.68 ip4…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=rD6IKpFy01dItKGF
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=KBcW5CfwNLAM/0qR7EQaMQ6EpgX44xvccXJeJ0O…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=g9PQGJfRFNffB4MEiJ_b7sA_J94yIXtFsQa0aHT3u5A