For Academia.edu, numbers matter. Numbers are how the website promotes itself — more than 29 million registered users have posted more than eight million academic papers to the site, the “about” page ...

Richard Price, the founder of Academia.edu, a social network for academic researchers, recently raised $11.1 million in a Series B funding round. But there’s a lot more to his story. Business Lessons ...

The emails appear with spammish regularity: “128 people recently read a paper you are mentioned in,” reads the subject line, followed by more clickbait: “A total of 63 papers on Academia mention your ...

When social media site Academia.edu hit the scene in 2008, it was hailed by some scholars as an alternative to pricey academic publishing and peer-review models. Professors and researchers could use ...

As privatized platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize scholarly writing even further, researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary ...

SHAREABLE STUDIES: Academia.edu, a social media platform for sharing academic research, has raised $16 million in a Series C round led by Tencent Holdings. Social Discovery Ventures also participated ...

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I got interested in learning more about Academia.edu after reading an Audrey Watters post about the platform. My curiosity was further piqued when Barbara Fister wrote about the takedown notices that ...

Academia.edu, a social networking platform for academics that’s looking to change the way scientific research is shared, just acquired Plasmyd, a search engine and discussion platform for research ...