Last year, we launched a new premium feature called Mentions, which notifies you whenever papers uploaded to Academia.edu mention your name. You can also make these mentions public to demonstrate the impact your work is having on scholarship and science.
We built Mentions, in part, because citation data — increasingly an important part of tenure and promotion decisions — misses many forms of impact. An academic might acknowledge you for providing input on a draft, or a colleague might refer to your forthcoming work, but without a full citation; others may cite your published work in a thesis, draft, foreign language, syllabus or bibliography. …
“Someone just searched for you on Google and found your page on Academia.edu.” Ever received this email and wondered how you were found? Google stopped providing us most of these terms in 2011, so for now, keep on wondering.
But, if you do wonder, then check out our newest premium feature, “Academia.edu Searches”! In the keywords tab of your analytics, you’ll see what search terms others use on Academia.edu to find your papers. This can help you understand what specifically about your work is attracting attention, and perhaps even help direct your next project.
You can view the terms for every Academia.edu search where we suggest your paper, and the rank of your paper on the results page. (The search term is premium, the rank is free!). As always, the external keywords sent to us by Google, Yahoo and Bing are still free, and still in your keywords tab of analytics! …
Academia hosts a global community of faculty members, students, independent researchers, and other academics. Over 45 million people have joined the site, and more than 7 million of them have listed a university or other organization that they’re affiliated with. In all, more than 130,000 universities in over 80 countries are represented on Academia.
Given the diversity of places where Academia’s users come from, a natural question is, which universities have the largest presence on the site? …
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