Academia

Accelerating the World’s Research

Reflecting, Honoring, and Disseminating our Stories

On May 27, 1892 in Memphis, Tennessee, a white mob destroyed a local newspaper named the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight run partly by a…

Kai Daniels

Feb 15

Reforming and Honoring African American Academia

“A historically black what?” was the common refrain from my Bay Area high school friends when I told them I would be attending Norfolk…

Michael Marable

Feb 15

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Academia Introduces a Premium Account

Academia’s mission is to get every academic paper ever written on the internet, available for free, and to develop a more rigorous and…

Richard Price

Mar 8, 2017

Does Google Scholar know about your Academia Mentions?

Last year, we launched a new premium feature called Mentions, which notifies you whenever papers uploaded to Academia.edu mention your…

The Academia Team

Jan 4, 2017

How do people find your papers?

Academia Introduces a new Premium Feature

The Academia Team

Dec 20, 2016

The Academia Team

Nov 22, 2016

Which universities have the most Academia users?

What’s a ‘Mention’ on Academia?

Academia’s mission is to accelerate the pace of discovery. We’ve added a new premium feature called…

Academia Introduces ‘Reasons For Downloading’

Academia’s mission is to accelerate the pace of the world’s research. We’ve added a new feature called ‘Reasons For Downloading’ to improve communication between authors and readers. The way it works is that readers can leave messages for authors…

Academia.edu, Citations, and Open Science in Action

On May 8, we announced the results of a year-long study of articles posted to Academia.edu. In the study, we asked whether posting an article to Academia.edu was associated with more citations. We found — after controlling for a number of…