🆚 Google Scholar vs. ORCID

Type

Science and research platform
Science and research platform

About

Google Scholar is a free academic search engine that indexes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and court cases from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, and universities.

It provides citation tracking through its "Cited by" feature, public author profiles, access to subscription articles through institutional libraries, email alerts, a case law database, and AI-generated outlines in the PDF reader.

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-proprietary registry that provides unique persistent identifiers for researchers and scholars, enabling them to distinguish their identity and connect their work across systems.

It assigns a 16-digit ORCID iD to each user, allows individuals to manage a personal record with publications, affiliations, and funding, and offers a public API and registry search for interoperability across research platforms.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️
Free ✔️

Categories

Science And Research › Rank #1
Science And Research › Rank #4

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Scholar science and research platform is 2.7 times more popular than ORCID.
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 in the United States, Indonesia, and Germany, while ORCID is more popular in Russia, Korea, and the Czech Republic.
United States
Indonesia
Germany
India
Vietnam
United Kingdom
Spain
Brazil
Iran
Ukraine

Awards

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 ORCID is more commonly used on job search and pharmacy sites.
Education/Reference
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Health
Marketing/Merchandising
Personal Pages
Internet Services
Technical/Business Forums
Entertainment
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#12,458
#21,777
#23,426
#27,309
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Name
Rank
#10,307
#23,391
#24,541
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See also

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