⚡ Science and Research in Brazil

Science and research platforms help scholars find academic papers, share their work, track citations, manage research profiles, and access preprints, patents, and data from a wide range of disciplines.

Brazil is a South American country with a population of around 217 million people.

According to our data, science and research platforms are used on 0.1% of websites from Brazil.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top science and research platforms in Brazil in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Google Scholar with an impressive share of 39.1%, followed by ResearchGate with 31.9% and ORCID with 23.2%.

Google Scholar 39.1%
ResearchGate 31.9%
ORCID 23.2%
Academia 17.4%
arXiv 8.7%
Scribd 2.9%
Semantic Scholar 1.4%
Google Patents 1.4%
OSF 1.4%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top platforms that are more popular in Brazil than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

3. ORCID ^(-2)
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✨ Best Science and Research Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 9 science and research platforms used on sites from Brazil, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Google Scholar Mountain View, California, United States A free scholarly search engine that indexes articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court cases from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, and universities. Free	39.1%
2	ResearchGate Berlin, Germany A social networking site for scientists and researchers to list their publications, ask and answer questions, and interact with each other. Free	31.9%
3	ORCID Bethesda, Maryland, United States An open, non-proprietary, transparent, community-based registry of unique identifiers for researchers and scholars. Free	23.2%
4	Academia San Francisco, California, United States A social networking platform for academics to share research papers. Free$499/year	17.4%
5	arXiv Ithaca, New York, United States An open-access archive of nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Free	8.7%
6	Scribd San Francisco, California, United States A digital document library and reading subscription service that provides access to millions of e-books, audiobooks, magazines, and user-uploaded documents. Free$9.99/month	2.9%
7	Semantic Scholar Seattle, Washington, United States An AI-powered search and discovery tool developed by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence that helps researchers discover and understand scientific literature that's most relevant to their work. Free	1.4%
8	Google Patents Mountain View, California, United States A search engine from Google that indexes patent publications from over 100 patent offices around the world. Free	1.4%
9	OSF Charlottesville, Virginia, United States An open source research platform that supports project management and collaboration, connects services across the research lifecycle, and archives data, materials, and other research objects for private use or public sharing. FreeOpen source	1.4%

👉 See Also

🌎 Science And Research in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 58,921 websites from Brazil.
Statistics were last calculated on January 29, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.