🆚 Academia vs. ORCID
- 📈 ORCID is as popular as Academia.
- 🌎 ORCID is more popular in Germany, Brazil, and Russia.
- 🌎 Academia is more popular in the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Academia
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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.
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-proprietary registry that provides unique persistent identifiers for researchers and scholars, enabling them to distinguish their identity and connect their work across systems.
It assigns a 16-digit ORCID iD to each user, allows individuals to manage a personal record with publications, affiliations, and funding, and offers a public API and registry search for interoperability across research platforms.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Science And Research category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.