Press Coverage

“Academia.edu can be thought of as a social network for academics, in that it allows them to forge connections and follow updates around their field, but it has another benefit: it gives them a powerful, efficient way to distribute their research.”

"Academic research operates on an entirely different calendar than the rest of the world, but maybe the pace would be sped up if researchers could more easily follow and share with one another. That’s the premise of Academia.edu, a social network that has three million monthly visitors and gets 3,000 new academic papers per day."

“The advantage of Academia.edu is that it’s a network that speaks the language of academe and is set up to provide you a profile that is explicitly professional."

"Academia.edu meticulously tracks web traffic for each paper, generating hoards of statistics about who is reading what and when. This one-two combination of distribution and analysis makes Academia.edu a potent new force in research, and a growing presence among scholars all over the globe."

“Here at The Social Bulletin, we expect to see Academia.edu continue to capitalize on this movement [open science] as it moves forward through 2012 with consistent success."

"It’s a very useful tool, as it will allow universities to find qualified individuals to dictate some courses or lectures. There was a need for a site like this, were college faculty could gather and find out more about their peers from other campuses."

"“The premise of Academia.edu is speed. Publishing a research or paper usually takes months up to years which is very similar to what we know from the book publishing space. With Academia.edu researchers can share their results in real time, speeding up the process of spreading those outcomes with others and therefore accelerating innovation eventually."

" it's really been a tremendous help in tracking down some papers published in obscure sources that might have otherwise taken me an eternity - well, a few days/weeks, which might as well be an eternity in this internet era - to get my little paws on otherwise"

“Academia.edu has matured enough and has grown to a critical mass that it has become THE social networking tool for academics, postgraduate students and researchers.”

“[Academia.edu] breaks the stranglehold of multinational publishing houses owning the terms of access to our work. While I always appreciate the effort that goes in to editing and peer-review, traditional scholarly publishing is not always an ideal way to share new ideas. This is particularly important for those of us who want to be read by people other than currently employed academics and enrolled students.”

“I uploaded my papers when I set up the profile and it was interesting to see recently that someone had viewed my profile after searching for keywords that are key to the topic of one of my papers.”

“Academia.edu is a social media site where users can share and follow research by fellow researchers. With it, you can upload your CV, teaching documents, blog posts, and websites. You can also “tag” papers, follow other researchers, upload copies of your papers, and find other groups with similar research interests. Check it out!”

"I've joined Academia.edu. It really helps to increase the visibility of my papers in geophysics and economics. I definitely recommend it."

"I signed up on Academia.edu because this site came up frequently at the top of Google searches. It does a lot of what one might hope for maintaining a web presence: e-mail, CV, links to papers."

"Academia.edu is a cool place for academics to create a profile and share their research.... Who knows you might even find a new research partner, or an interesting place to work that you never knew existed!"

"It has been fun to have better access to papers that are made available by fellow researchers, see who has read what papers, and what kind of research people might be working on."