ResearchGate Alternatives

ResearchGate is described as 'Connects scientists to share papers, datasets, and findings, discover global research, track publications, and engage in scholarly discussion within a scientific network' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to ResearchGate for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Android Tablet apps. The best ResearchGate alternative is Mendeley, which is free. Other great apps like ResearchGate are Google Scholar, WorldCat, ResearchCollab and OpenScience.ink.

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  1. Mendeley icon
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    Mendeley helps manage and share academic knowledge: Mendeley Desktop is free academic software (Windows, Mac, Linux) for organizing and sharing research papers and generating bibliographies with 1GB of free online storage to automatically back up and synchronize your library...

    98 Mendeley alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  2. Google Scholar icon
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    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and...

    38 Google Scholar alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  3. WorldCat icon
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    WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

    70 WorldCat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
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  4. ResearchCollab is a web-based research collaboration platform designed to support individual researchers and teams throughout the research process.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. OpenScience turns biomedical research into readable weekly briefs, with cited paper summaries and PubMed/DOI source links.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  6. Academia.edu icon
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    is a social networking website for academics. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. It was launched in September08, with 31 million registered and over 8 million uploaded texts.

    27 Academia.edu alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  7. Consensus icon
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    Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to instantly extract, aggregate, and distill findings directly from scientific research.

    23 Consensus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  8. SciSpace icon
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    Search the largest scientific corpus in the world Discover and study research papers better with SciSpace copilot.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  9. Semantic Scholar (paywall free) is a science publication aggregator that collects citation-data from PubMed, CiteSeer, IEEE etc and rank each article according to the percieved number of impactful citations.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  10. Snowball icon
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    Snowball lets you quickly find and filter through papers using the snowballing method. Start with a core collection of papers, and find more by going through their citations and references.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Curasynth icon
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    Curasynth is an AI-powered research platform designed to streamline and automate various aspects of academic and clinical research, from writing and data analysis to protocol generation. It provides an all-in-one platform for researchers to increase efficiency and reduce the...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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