🆚 Academia vs. Google Scholar

📈 Google Scholar is three times more popular than Academia.
🌎 Google Scholar is more popular in the United States, Indonesia, and India.
🌍 Academia is more popular in Italy, Romania, and Argentina.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Academia

Google Scholar

Type

Science and research platform

About

Academia.edu is a social networking platform for academics that enables users to share research papers, build professional profiles, and connect with other researchers worldwide.

It hosts over 55 million papers and more than 300 million registered users, allows uploading and downloading articles, supports following researchers and topics, and offers premium features such as advanced analytics, personal website, and search alerts and filters.

Google Scholar is a free academic search engine that indexes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and court cases from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, and universities.

It provides citation tracking through its "Cited by" feature, public author profiles, access to subscription articles through institutional libraries, email alerts, a case law database, and AI-generated outlines in the PDF reader.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

academia.edu #360

scholar.google.com

Pricing

Free version ✔️

Academia Premium Varies by country
USA $499/year

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Scholar science and research platform is 2.8 times more popular than Academia.

Total websites

Market share

Science And Research

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Scholar is more popular in the United States, Indonesia, and India, while Academia is more popular in Italy, Romania, and Argentina.

United States

Indonesia

India

Vietnam

Germany

United Kingdom

Spain

Iran

Brazil

Italy

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Science And Research category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Science And Research category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Science And Research category.
⬆️ 23rd most popular in Spain in the Social Media category.
⬆️ 36th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Social Media category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Science And Research category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Science And Research category.
🥇 Most popular in India in the Science And Research category.
🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Science And Research category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Science And Research category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Scholar is more popular among sites focused on education and reference, business, and blogs and wiki, while Academia is more commonly used on politics and opinion, art, culture and heritage, and general news sites.

Education/Reference

Business

Blogs/Wiki

Marketing/Merchandising

Health

Personal Pages

Internet Services

Entertainment

Technical/Business Forums

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#360

#12,685

#13,174

#15,888

#21,777

Name

Rank

#2,601

#12,458

#21,777

#23,426

#27,309