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Springer Nature
Who runs Springer Nature, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic publishing alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Elsevier
Measured from Springer Nature’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Springer Nature01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Springer Nature
Springer Nature springernature.com
We are a global publisher dedicated to providing the best possible service to the whole research community. We help authors to share their discoveries; enable researchers to find, access and understand the work of others and support librarians and institutions with innovations in technology and data.
Wikidata: company in New York, United States
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What Springer Nature 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
More than all 12 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 4 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
A/B testing
Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Springer Nature
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Springer Nature, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Elsevier | A global leader for advanced information and decision support in science and healthcare
Elsevier provides advanced information and decision support to accelerate progress in science and healthcare worldwide.
Very close - 02
Sage - a global academic publisher of educational resources | Home
Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and digital resources to support teaching, learning and research
Close - 03
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close - 04
Taylor & Francis – Fostering human progress through knowledge
Taylor & Francis publishes knowledge and specialty research spanning humanities, social sciences, science and technology, engineering, medicine and healthcare.
Very close - 05
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close - 06
Homepage - Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press moves knowledge and learning forward. Discover our products, services, and latest thinking in education and research.
Close - 07
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Very close - 08
publisher of open-access scientific journals
Very close - 09
Routledge - Publisher of Professional & Academic Books
Routledge is a leading book publisher that fosters human progress through knowledge for scholars, instructors and professionals
Very close - 10
digital journal platform
Close - 11
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journal
Very close - 12
PeerJ - Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journals, Trusted by Researchers
Trusted by researchers, committed to open. PeerJ delivers open-access publishing with transparent peer review across two STM and computer science journals.
Very close - 13 proquest.com Top 10K
set of journals
Very close - 14
Browse
book publishing imprint descended in part from J. B. Lippincott & Co. and Lea Brothers
Close - 15
website providing subscription-based access to a database of scientific and medical research
Very close - 16 Simon & Schuster simonandschuster.com
American publishing company
Close - 17
集英社 ― SHUEISHA ―
集英社公式サイト総合トップページ。集英社の雑誌、書籍、コミックなど全ての出版物に関する情報や各サイトへアクセスできます。
Close - 18
Egyptian scientific publisher
Close - 19 Cengage Group cengage.com
commercial publisher of textbooks, educational software, and training programs
Close - 20 Figshare figshare.com
research output digital online sharing platform; operated by Figshare LLP, part of Digital Science
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Springer Nature’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Springer Nature 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 Springer Nature 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 · 25 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 50 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Springer Nature’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 libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.springernature.com/app-sn/public/scripts/vendor/jquery-3.7.1.min.js
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 ip4:185.132.180.79/32 ip4:185.183.28.43/32 ip4:192.87.127.46/3…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=14531dc4832a4f058901f6248d4e18c5
- A/B testing
- Optimizely page source: cdn.optimizely.com/js/
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-c5f78381-internal, cache-ber1080049-BER, cache-ber108…
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google, 1.1 varnish
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:185.132.180.79/32 ip4:185.183.28.43/32 ip4:192.87.127.46/3…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms88462947
- Proofpoint MX mxa-002c5801.gslb.pphosted.com
- Email delivery
- Brevo TXT brevo-code:cd8e7d5eab5faf6e2b1390dd51490388
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 ip4:185.132.180.79/32 ip4:185.183.28.43/32 ip4:192.87.127.46/3…
- DNS hosting
- UltraDNS NS pdns6.ultradns.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=f30ae146-b47e-4873-90a4-71b6caa385fc
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=kpgU8tG6KBbV75V1
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=8YyRB1dGCFU6FTIcUt18raWzPoKaOFUG7xiFOka…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=0eQ4w0o1XIdbPUk-R__uFQ
- DocuSign TXT docusign=05ddd754-07ab-4340-ab0f-0c5bef29568a
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=ZDZSSB-o6ZH6birEr4QdLtr7eDsv_xha9JJTi…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: -JVT1U_ajuWw1CQxHC7kxyRa1t7fK3Uv7Y7muf43JpY
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=2o7rz24tshr5623rtfru30ptsae0nw
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-BLVeicmlCQ9jWWtehS3FWSwn
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:185.132.180.79/32 ip4:185.183.28.43/32 ip4:192.87.127.46/3…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 18/20
- Atlassian 13/20
- Cloudflare · not on springernature.com 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on springernature.com 10/20
- OneTrust 9/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- Adobe 7/20
- DocuSign 7/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- GlobalSign 6/20
- Bootstrap · not on springernature.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on springernature.com 5/20
- jQuery 5/20
- Proofpoint 5/20