🆚 Academia vs. Scribd
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Academia is twice as popular as Scribd.
- 🌎 Academia is more popular in the United States, Vietnam, and Spain.
- 🌍 Scribd is more popular in Greece, Serbia, and Hungary.
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Academia.edu is a social networking platform for academics to share research papers.
Scribd is a digital document library and reading subscription service that provides access to millions of e-books, audiobooks, magazines, and user-uploaded documents.
It offers offline reading and listening, highlights and personal notes, curated browsing with editorial and algorithmic recommendations, and custom lists of titles.
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- 🥇 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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Science And Research category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the Science And Research category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Science And Research category.
- ⬆️ 45th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
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