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Comparison
Academia.edu vs Figshare
Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re very close.
A commercial platform where researchers upload and share academic papers, build profiles, and follow others' work; reading is free, while downloads require registration and extra features (analytics, advanced search) require a paid premium subscription.
An open access repository where researchers upload, preserve, and share research outputs such as datasets, figures, images, videos, and code, with citable DOIs. It also offers hosted repository services for institutions and publishers.
- Company
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- Registered in
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- Online since
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- Audience
- Top 1K
- Smaller site
- Trackers on the homepage
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- Ad trackers
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- Cookie banner
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- Prices
- No pricing page found
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- Last price change
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- Privacy policy changes
- 0
- 0
- Terms changes
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- 0
- Open positions
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Trackers are what each homepage loads before cookie consent; changes count since we started checking each site weekly. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.