Open Source ResearchGate Alternatives

The best open source alternative to ResearchGate is Snowball. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to ResearchGate and three of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to ResearchGate are Arxiv Sanity Preserver and AcademiaOS.

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  1. Snowball icon
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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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. This project is a web interface that attempts to tame the overwhelming flood of papers on Arxiv. It allows researchers to keep track of recent papers, search for papers, sort papers by similarity to any paper, see recent popular papers, to add papers to a personal library, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. AcademiaOS icon
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    Find Academic Papers: Building on the SemanticScholar corpus and OpenAI embeddings, AcademiaOS finds and ranks relevant papers to your search queries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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