The Academia.edu Team

How do people find your papers? Academia.edu 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…

Which universities have the most Academia users?

What’s a ‘Mention’ on Academia.edu?

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.

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…

Academia.edu passes 10 million users

Originally published at blog.academia.edu on June 3, 2014

Introducing co-authored papers.

Academia.edu now supports multiple authors for uploaded papers

Your feed just got better.

You may have noticed some changes to the Academia.edu newsfeed, which we began updating early last week. The…