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
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
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 and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 57 ms
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