researchgate.net
ResearchGate
Who runs ResearchGate, 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
- Academia.edu
Measured from ResearchGate’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit ResearchGate01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs ResearchGate
ResearchGate researchgate.net
Wikidata: commercial scientific social network
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What ResearchGate tracks
We couldn’t read researchgate.net’s homepage (HTTP 403), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to ResearchGate
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ResearchGate, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read researchgate.net’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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open repository of academic articles
Very close - 02
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.
Close - 03
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 - 04
American online social media and social networking service
Very close - 05
ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
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Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 07 Cara cara.app
artist social media app
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open access eLibrary; part of Elsevier
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promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
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social networking service for neighborhoods
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Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book
Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads.
Very close - 12
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
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ソーシャル・ネットワーキング サービス [mixi(ミクシィ)]
mixi(ミクシィ)は、日記、写真共有、ゲームや便利ツール満載のアプリなど、さまざまなサービスで友人・知人とのコミュニケーションをさらに便利に楽しくする、日本最大規模のソーシャル・ネットワーキングサービスです。
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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.
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design website
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American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
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Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
Very close - 18
social network service for films
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Google
search engine by Google LLC
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American question-and-answer website
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles ResearchGate’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones ResearchGate 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 ResearchGate 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 · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 30 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to ResearchGate’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 ip4:209.15.209.64/27 ip4:209.15.214.192/28 ip4:209.15.243.112/…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:209.15.209.64/27 ip4:209.15.214.192/28 ip4:209.15.243.112/…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5771768fad152d8-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS val.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=1zVGDn699lBJWe3h
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Nad6ba1ysA1mdnvoY0zYwoRwv6nBwSBawy/Xaex…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=adDX9Qsrt8PjtLYlL3wfJJVp_QvS36jMwtcjEPd4J9Q
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:209.15.209.64/27 ip4:209.15.214.192/28 ip4:209.15.243.112/…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on researchgate.net 10/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- DocuSign · not on researchgate.net 7/20
- Apple Business 6/20
- Zendesk 6/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on researchgate.net 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on researchgate.net 5/20
- OneTrust · not on researchgate.net 5/20
- OpenAI · not on researchgate.net 4/20
- HubSpot · not on researchgate.net 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- Mailchimp 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on researchgate.net 3/20