🆚 Google Scholar vs. OSF
- 📈 Google Scholar is much more popular than OSF.
- 🌍 Google Scholar is more popular in all countries.
Google Scholar
OSFType
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.
The Open Science Framework is an open-source research platform developed by the Center for Open Science that supports project management, collaboration, and data sharing across the research lifecycle.
It provides structured project workspaces with version control and granular permissions, enables storage and long-term preservation of data, code, and materials, and integrates with 
GitHub, 
Dropbox, 
Google Drive, and 
ORCID.
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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 the United States in the Science And Research category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Science And Research category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Science And Research category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Science And Research category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Science And Research category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.