🆚 Academia vs. Scribd
- 📈 Academia is twice as popular as Scribd.
- 🌎 Academia is more popular in the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Scribd is more popular in Greece, Hungary, and Moldova.
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.
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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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
- 🥇 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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Science And Research category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Science And Research category.
- ⬆️ 46th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
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Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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arXiv
ORCID
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The StoryGraph🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.