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
None of the 60 sites closest to Research Square 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 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 and search numbers · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
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