🆚 Facebook vs. ResearchGate

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Facebook is much more popular than ResearchGate.
🌍 Facebook is more popular in all countries.

Type

Social media platform

Science and research platform

About

Facebook is a social media platform owned by Meta.

It enables users to create profiles, post text, photos, and videos, join groups, follow pages, and interact through reactions and comments. With about 3 billion monthly active users, Facebook is currently the most popular social media platform in the world.

ResearchGate is a social networking platform for scientists and researchers that enables them to share publications, collaborate with peers, and engage in academic discussions online.

It allows users to upload and track research papers with metrics such as reads and citations, access a database with over 160 million publication pages, ask and answer questions through a dedicated Q&A system, follow topics and researchers, and maintain detailed profiles with publication lists, affiliations, and research statistics.

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California, United States

Berlin, Germany

Website

facebook.com #2

researchgate.net #58

Pricing

Free ✔️

Free ✔️

Categories

Social Media › Rank #1

Social Media › Rank #39

Science And Research › Rank #2

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Facebook social media platform is 1,218 times more popular than ResearchGate.

Total websites

Market share

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Facebook is more popular than ResearchGate in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Italy

Spain

Japan

Australia

India

Netherlands

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Social Media category.

🥇 Most popular in France in the Science And Research category.
🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Science And Research category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Science And Research category.
🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Science And Research category.
🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Science And Research category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Facebook is more popular than ResearchGate in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Internet Services

Marketing/Merchandising

Entertainment

Health

General News

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#2

#8

#16

#17

#20

Name

Rank

#9,458

#13,515

#15,000

#20,047

#20,994

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See also

ResearchGate technology profile

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