Academia.edu
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Academia.edu is a commercial platform for sharing academic research that is uploaded and distributed by researchers from around the world. All academic articles are free to read by visitors, however uploading and downloading articles is restricted to registered users, with additional features accessible only as a paid subscription.
OverviewAI-generated
Academia.edu is an online platform that was established in 2008. The service maintains an official website and has an Alexa rank of 610. It currently has 54,107 social media followers. The platform is referenced by 1,404 other encyclopedia articles.
A related entity, Academia.edu Journals, is an active organization based in San Francisco, United States. This entity was established in 2022 and is classified under the type "other."
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Academia, Inc.
- Website.logo
- Academia.edu logo.svg
- Website.screenshot
- Screenshot of Academia.edu (26 Dec 2017).PNG
- Website.collapsible
- no
- Website.location
- San Francisco, California, U.S.
- Website.founder
- Richard Price
- Website.registration
- Required
- Website.users
- 270 million
- Website.language
- English
- Website.company_type
- Private
- Website.area_served
- Worldwide
- Website.num_employees
- 100
- Website.website_type
- Platform for sharing research papers
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Other
- Founded
- 2022
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Status
- Active
Described at
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Competitors
- Publishing
- Criticism
- References
- External links
Academia.edu is a commercial platform for sharing academic research that is uploaded and distributed by researchers from around the world. All academic articles are free to read by visitors, however uploading and downloading articles is restricted to registered users, with additional features accessible only as a paid subscription.
Since the launch of the site in 2008, the number of users has grown rapidly, reaching about 10 million daily visits in early 2022. By 2024, Academia.edu has over 270 million registered users, with over 55 million papers currently available on the platform.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Academia.edu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.