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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
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Closest alternative
Academia.edu

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01 · 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

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree plan

None of the 60 sites closest to ResearchGate match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · 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.

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Sites searched
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Vector
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Query
57 ms

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