ResearchGate Alternatives

ResearchGate is described as 'Connects scientists to share papers, datasets, and findings, discover global research, track publications, and engage in scholarly discussion within a scientific network' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to ResearchGate for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Android Tablet apps. The best ResearchGate alternative is Mendeley, which is free. Other great apps like ResearchGate are Google Scholar, WorldCat, Academia.edu and ResearchCollab.

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  1. Mendeley icon

    Mendeley

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    Mendeley helps manage and share academic knowledge: Mendeley Desktop is free academic software (Windows, Mac, Linux) for organizing and sharing research papers and generating bibliographies with 1GB of free online storage to automatically back up and synchronize your library...

    81 Mendeley alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    • Mendeley is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ResearchGate.

    • Mendeley is the most popular free alternative to ResearchGate.

    • Mendeley is Freemium and ProprietaryResearchGate is Free and Proprietary
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    Google Scholar

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    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and...

    30 Google Scholar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    • Most users think Google Scholar is a great ResearchGate alternative.

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryResearchGate is also Free and Proprietary
  4. WorldCat icon

    WorldCat

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    WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

    58 WorldCat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
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    • WorldCat is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to ResearchGate.

    • WorldCat is Free and ProprietaryResearchGate is also Free and Proprietary
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    Academia.edu

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    is a social networking website for academics. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. It was launched in September08, with 31 million registered and over 8 million uploaded texts.

    26 Academia.edu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  7. ResearchCollab icon

    ResearchCollab

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    ResearchCollab is a web-based research collaboration platform designed to support individual researchers and teams throughout the research process.

    13 ResearchCollab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    The ResearchCollab Dashboard offers a real-time overview of your research activity, showing active projects, resources, papers, and recent updates. It helps you stay organized, track progress, monitor AI credit usage, and stay connected with collaborators, all in one central hub.
     

    • ResearchCollab is the most popular SaaS alternative to ResearchGate.

    • ResearchCollab is the most popular commercial alternative to ResearchGate.

    • ResearchCollab is Paid and ProprietaryResearchGate is Free and Proprietary
    • ResearchCollab is Privacy focusedResearchGate is not according to our users
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    Semantic Scholar

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    Semantic Scholar (paywall free) is a science publication aggregator that collects citation-data from PubMed, CiteSeer, IEEE etc and rank each article according to the percieved number of impactful citations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. Consensus icon

    Consensus

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    Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to instantly extract, aggregate, and distill findings directly from scientific research.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    SciSpace

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    Search the largest scientific corpus in the world Discover and study research papers better with SciSpace copilot.

    14 SciSpace alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Snowball

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    Snowball lets you quickly find and filter through papers using the snowballing method. Start with a core collection of papers, and find more by going through their citations and references.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Snowball is the most popular Open Source alternative to ResearchGate.

    • Snowball is Free and Open SourceResearchGate is Free and Proprietary
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    Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

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    BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 300 million documents from more than 10,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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