researchsquare.com
Research Square
Who runs Research Square, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest preprint server alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- medRxiv
Measured from Research Square’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Research Square01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Research Square
Research Square researchsquare.com
Research Square is a preprint platform that makes research communication faster, fairer, and more useful.
Wikidata: preprint server
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Research Square 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.
tracker that follows visitors
4 of the 10 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Research Square
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Research Square, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 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 Preprints.org preprints.org
open-access repository
Very close - 04
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close - 05 Authorea authorea.com
online collaborative writing tool and research publishing platform
Very close - 06
open access eLibrary; part of Elsevier
Very close - 07
Zenodo
research data repository
Close - 08
peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal
Close - 09
database of biomedical research
Close - 10 Dataverse dataverse.org
open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data
Close - 11
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code
Close - 12
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close - 13
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.
Close - 14
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Close - 15
academic journal of the National Academy of Sciences
Close - 16
curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals
Close - 17
online bibliographic database
Close - 18
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Close - 19
Welcome | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Welcome to the IZA@LISER Network website
Close - 20
website providing subscription-based access to a database of scientific and medical research
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Research Square’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Research Square 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 Research Square 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 · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Research Square’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
- JavaScript frameworks
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.11.2/css/all.min.css
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:spf-002c5801.pphosted.com include:spf.mtasv.net includ…
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.11.2/css/all.min.css
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5779a675c0c0fcc-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms58598342
- Proofpoint MX mxa-002c5801.gslb.pphosted.com
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:spf-002c5801.pphosted.com include:spf.mtasv.net includ…
- Postmark TXT v=spf1 include:spf-002c5801.pphosted.com include:spf.mtasv.net includ…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS gerald.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=5MwiLfO6kDZfwOSAFsYJaIApajnVvRgr/555dRG…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=uMuxMWC4PA2aKCxOQXL3Mg
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=dCBzDSCM1LQDUO10aV3tMVIYEu8e3YORtTGvblXpin0
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on researchsquare.com 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on researchsquare.com 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on researchsquare.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on researchsquare.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on researchsquare.com 4/20
- Google Tag Manager 3/20
- jsDelivr · not on researchsquare.com 3/20
- PHP · not on researchsquare.com 3/20
- Fastly · not on researchsquare.com 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on researchsquare.com 3/20
- OpenAI · not on researchsquare.com 3/20
- Mailgun · not on researchsquare.com 3/20