⚡ Science and Research in the United States

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.

According to our data, science and research platforms are used on 0.2% of websites from the United States.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the top science and research platforms in the United States in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is Google Scholar, which dominates the market with a substantial 56% share.
It is followed by arXiv with 22% and ResearchGate with 17.8%.

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best Science And Research Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of all science and research platforms used on sites from the United States, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1 Google ScholarMountain 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.
2 arXivIthaca, 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.
3 ResearchGateBerlin, Germany

A social networking site for scientists and researchers to list their publications, ask and answer questions, and interact with each other.
4 AcademiaSan Francisco, California, United States

A social networking platform for academics to share research papers.
5 ORCIDBethesda, Maryland, United States

An open, non-proprietary, transparent, community-based registry of unique identifiers for researchers and scholars.
6 Google PatentsMountain View, California, United States

A search engine from Google that indexes patent publications from over 100 patent offices around the world.
7 OSFCharlottesville, 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.
8 Semantic ScholarSeattle, 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.
Data is based on the analysis of 581,242 websites from the United States.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.