🆚 Google Patents vs. Google Scholar
- 📈 Google Scholar is much more popular than Google Patents.
- 🌍 Google Scholar is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google Patents
Google ScholarType
Science and research platform
Science and research platform
About
Google Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patent publications from over 100 patent offices around the world.
Google Scholar is a free scholarly search engine that indexes articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court cases from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, and universities.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️
Categories
Science And Research › Rank #8
Science And Research › Rank #1
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Google Scholar science and research platform is 20 times more popular than Google Patents.
Total websites
Market share
Science And Research
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google Scholar is more popular than Google Patents in all countries.
United States
Germany
Indonesia
Vietnam
India
United Kingdom
Spain
Ukraine
Brazil
France
Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Science And Research category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Science And Research category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Science And Research category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Science And Research category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Science And Research category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Science And Research category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google Scholar is more popular among sites focused on education and reference, business, and blogs and wiki, while Google Patents is more commonly used on online shopping and politics and opinion sites.
Education/Reference
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Health
Personal Pages
Technical/Business Forums
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
ResearchGate
arXiv
Academia
ORCID
OSF🗃️ 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.