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Comparison
Academia.edu vs Semantic Scholar
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.
A free search engine for scientific papers that indexes scholarly literature and adds features such as automatically generated paper summaries, citation graphs, author profiles, an augmented PDF reader, and a public API for paper data.
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- Online since
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- Audience
- Top 1K
- Top 10K
- Trackers on the homepage
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- Visitor analytics: Google Analytics
- Marketing and email tracking: HubSpot
- Tag manager: Google Tag Manager
- Third-party embeds: Google Fonts
- Ad trackers
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- None
- Cookie banner
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- Prices
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- Privacy policy changes
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- Terms changes
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- 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.