Academia

Reflecting, Honoring, and Disseminating our Stories

Reforming and Honoring African American Academia

Academia Introduces a Premium Account

Academia’s mission is to get every academic paper ever written on the internet, available for…

Does Google Scholar know about your Academia Mentions?

How do people find your papers?

Academia Introduces a new Premium Feature

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…