🆚 Academia vs. OSF
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Academia is much more popular than OSF.
- 🌍 Academia is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ OSF is particularly popular in Vietnam.
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.
The Open Science Framework is an open-source research platform developed by the Center for Open Science that supports project management, collaboration, and data sharing across the research lifecycle.
It provides structured project workspaces with version control and granular permissions, enables storage and long-term preservation of data, code, and materials, and integrates with GitHub, Dropbox, Google Drive, and ORCID.
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Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Science And Research category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Science And Research category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Vietnam in the Science And Research category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in India in the Science And Research category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Iran in the Science And Research category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Vietnam in the Science And Research category.
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