Academia Introduces a new Premium Feature — “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…

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…

Academia’s mission is to accelerate the pace of discovery. We’ve added a new premium feature called Mentions to help you demonstrate the impact of your work. You’ll receive notifications whenever others upload papers that mention your name. Think of Mentions as lightweight citations. You might discover that a professor acknowledged…

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 when they download papers. Readers have the option to tell authors…

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 factors and applying several statistical models — that a…

Originally published at blog.academia.edu on June 3, 2014 Academia.edu just passed 10 million users. I remember when the site started, and a hundred or two hundred people were joining each day. Now around thirty to forty thousand people are joining each day. The ten million milestone reflects the growing interest…

Photo courtesy of the Natural Step Canada We now support multiple authors on papers uploaded to Academia.edu. In research, we stand on the shoulders of giants past. We gather together with our peers to clarify, develop, and validate new insights. To reflect the collaborative nature of research, Academia.edu now supports…

Photo courtesy of Joel Bedford You may have noticed some changes to the Academia.edu newsfeed, which we began updating early last week. The newsfeed is integral to your Academia.edu experience, so we’re writing now to let you know some of our thoughts behind the redesign. There were many reasons for…