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.
15 of the 60 sites closest to Research Square match.
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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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Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
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Welcome | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Welcome to the IZA@LISER Network website
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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.
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Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
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Home | LibreTexts
open access educational resource collection
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PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
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UpToDate
medical software company
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RWTH Aachen University | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule | EN
Die RWTH Aachen ist ein Ort, an dem die Zukunft unserer industrialisierten Welt gedacht wird - Thinking the Future
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Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
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Client Challenge
global publishing company
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University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a large UK higher education institution and part of the Russell Group of leading universities.
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journal
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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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French research institution in computer science
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 42 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