academia.edu
Academia.edu
Who runs Academia.edu, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic social network alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- ResearchGate
Measured from Academia.edu’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Academia.edu
Academia.edu academia.edu
Wikidata: open repository of academic articles
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Academia.edu tracks
We couldn’t read academia.edu’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Academia.edu
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Academia.edu, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read academia.edu’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
commercial scientific social network
Very close - 02
open access eLibrary; part of Elsevier
Very close - 03
Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool
Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.
Very close - 04
LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Very close - 05
design website
Very close - 06
Wattpad - Stories to obsess over
Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story
Very close - 07
Danish freemium review website
Very close - 08
Connected Papers | Find and explore academic papers
Connected Papers is a visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find academic papers relevant to their field of work.
Very close - 09
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Very close - 10
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Very close - 11
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 12
note ――つくる、つながる、とどける。
クリエイターが文章やマンガ、写真、音声を投稿することができ、ユーザーはそのコンテンツを楽しんで応援できるメディアプラットフォームです。だれもが創作を楽しんで続けられるよう、安心できる雰囲気や、多様性を大切にしています。
Very close - 13 Mendeley mendeley.com
reference management software; product of Elsevier
Close - 14
online bibliographic database
Very close - 15
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close - 16
online publishing platform
Very close - 17
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Very close - 18
Vocal
Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.
Very close - 19
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Very close - 20
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Academia.edu’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Academia.edu uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Academia.edu adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Academia.edu’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:ma…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:ma…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-225.awsdns-28.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=1RjRckbT2g6y1YmT
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=lpjzdQ-e9XKCo3NmQ3bCXpbD1MaufmV0_gd7ObUNAUc
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-dkibUtORBvVa6pP1h6f5d7RB
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_Rxzrf9pJxjR7JvgdFlk0Yd
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Amazon Route 53 13/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Atlassian · not on academia.edu 9/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on academia.edu 8/20
- Zendesk 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on academia.edu 7/20
- DocuSign · not on academia.edu 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on academia.edu 5/20
- HubSpot · not on academia.edu 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on academia.edu 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on academia.edu 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on academia.edu 4/20
- Mailchimp 4/20
- OneTrust · not on academia.edu 4/20