🆚 Academia vs. Scopus

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.

Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database curated by an independent advisory board, covering over 100 million peer-reviewed research records.

It provides search and discovery tools, author and organization profiles, journal metrics, citation analysis, historical content back to 1788, and an AI-powered research assistant.

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.

• 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Science And Research category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Science And Research category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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