preprints.org
Preprints.org
Who runs Preprints.org, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest preprint server alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- medRxiv
Measured from Preprints.org’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Preprints.org01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Preprints.org
Preprints.org preprints.org
Wikidata: open-access repository
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What Preprints.org tracks
We couldn’t read preprints.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Preprints.org
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Preprints.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read preprints.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences
medRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Very close - 02
bioRxiv.org - the preprint server for Biology
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Very close - 03
Home | Research Square
Research Square is a preprint platform that makes research communication faster, fairer, and more useful.
Very close - 04
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close - 05
open access eLibrary; part of Elsevier
Very close - 06 Authorea authorea.com
online collaborative writing tool and research publishing platform
Very close - 07
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close - 08
database of biomedical research
Very close - 09
peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal
Very close - 10
curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals
Very close - 11
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close - 12 Dataverse dataverse.org
open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data
Very close - 13
peer-reviewed open-access journal
Very close - 14
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 - 15
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code
Close - 16 SciELO scielo.org
bibliographic database of open access journals
Very close - 17 Figshare figshare.com
research output digital online sharing platform; operated by Figshare LLP, part of Digital Science
Very close - 18
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 19
academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences
Very close - 20
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Preprints.org’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Preprints.org 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 Preprints.org 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 · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Preprints.org’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
- CDN
- Akamai header akamai-grn: 0.32221102.1794172631.47d1ba5c
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a3-64.akam.net
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on preprints.org 16/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on preprints.org 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on preprints.org 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on preprints.org 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on preprints.org 7/20
- Zendesk · not on preprints.org 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on preprints.org 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on preprints.org 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on preprints.org 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on preprints.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on preprints.org 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on preprints.org 3/20
- Atlassian · not on preprints.org 3/20
- Mailchimp Transactional · not on preprints.org 3/20
- Fastly · not on preprints.org 3/20
- OpenAI · not on preprints.org 3/20