🆚 Academia vs. Scite

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.

Scite is an AI-powered research platform that helps researchers discover and evaluate scientific literature through citation analysis.

It provides Smart Citations that classify each citation, full-text search across over 300 million papers including paywalled content, an AI assistant grounded in peer-reviewed sources, reports and collections that track citation accumulation, a reference checker for manuscripts, and an MCP server that connects the platform to Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Cursor.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥈 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.
• ⬆️ 34th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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