The 12 closest competitors and alternatives to Frontiers among publishing companies — ranked by similarity to what Frontiers actually does, not by market-cap band.
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Frontiers is an open-access academic publisher and provider of peer-reviewed scientific journals across various disciplines.
Frontiers is a publishing company headquartered in Switzerland, founded in 2010. Xcout tracks 8 named people at Frontiers, including Frederick Fenter (Chief Executive Editor). Xcout recorded 28 job postings from Frontiers in the last 90 days.
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Xcout recorded 28 job postings from Frontiers in the last 90 days, from a hiring record Xcout has kept since July 2026.
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Ranked by semantic similarity — how close each company is to Frontiers by what it does, using Xcout's live company graph. Click any company for its full profile, or its competitor set.
Media & Entertainment
Elsevier provides advanced information, decision support, and digital tools for professionals and institutions in the science, technology, and healthcare sectors. The company publishes peer-reviewed journals and academic books, and offers data-driven platforms such as ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ClinicalKey to support research, education, and clinical practice.
Media & Entertainment
PLOS One is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006. The journal covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine. The Public Library of Science began in 2000 with an online petition initiative by Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus, formerly director of the National Institutes of Health and at that time director of Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center; Patrick O. Brown, a biochemist at Stanford University; and Michael Eisen, a computational biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence
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De Gruyter Brill is an academic publishing company that provides books, journals, and digital resources across various scholarly subjects.
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PeerJ provides open-access publishing services with transparent peer review across STM and computer science journals, serving researchers.
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IOS Press is an international publishing house that produces peer-reviewed content covering science, technology, and medicine.
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Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic publisher of peer-reviewed books and journals across the humanities, social sciences, and business.
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CNRS Éditions is a French academic publishing house that publishes books and journals across various scientific and humanities disciplines.
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Edward Elgar Publishing is an academic publisher providing books, journals, and reference works across various social science and legal disciplines via its online platform.
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OMICS International is an open-access publisher of scientific journals and an organizer of international academic and scientific conferences.
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LIT Verlag is a German academic publishing house specializing in scholarly books, journals, and research series across various disciplines.
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Pensoft Publishers is an independent academic publishing company and technology provider specializing in open-access scholarly journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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