⚡ Science and Research in the United Kingdom

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.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

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

Statistics based on 159K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Google Scholar with an impressive share of 31.1%, followed by ResearchGate with 26.3% and Academia with 20.6%.

Google Scholar 31.1%
ResearchGate 26.3%
Academia 20.6%
arXiv 20.1%
ORCID 15.8%
Scribd 6.2%
OSF 3.3%
Semantic Scholar 0.5%
Google Patents 0.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Academia ^(-1)
8. Semantic Scholar ^(-1)

✨ Best Science and Research Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 9 science and research platforms used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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	31.1%
2	ResearchGate Berlin, Germany A social networking platform for scientists and researchers that enables them to share publications, collaborate with peers, and engage in academic discussions online. Free	26.3%
3	Academia San Francisco, California, United States A social networking platform for academics that enables users to share research papers, build professional profiles, and connect with other researchers worldwide. Free$$$	20.6%
4	arXiv Ithaca, New York, United States An open-access repository operated by Cornell University that provides free access to scholarly articles across fields such as physics, mathematics, computer science, and economics. Free	20.1%
5	ORCID Bethesda, Maryland, United States 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. Free	15.8%
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	6.2%
7	OSF Charlottesville, Virginia, United States An open-source research platform developed by the Center for Open Science that supports project management, collaboration, and data sharing across the research lifecycle. FreeOpen source	3.3%
8	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	0.5%
9	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	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Science And Research in other countries

🗃️ 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 159,418 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 9 science and research platforms across the web.
Of these, 9 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.