🆚 Google Scholar vs. ResearchGate
- 📈 Google Scholar is twice as popular as ResearchGate.
- 🌎 Google Scholar is more popular in the United States, Indonesia, and India.
- 🌍 ResearchGate is more popular in Germany, France, and Austria.
Google Scholar
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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.
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.
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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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Science And Research category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Science And Research category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
- ⬆️ 31st most popular in the United Kingdom in the Social Media category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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.