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 ...

Research sharing platform Academia.edu is adding an analytics dashboard in order to allow measurement of the reach of academic papers shared on the site. The new dashboard enables researchers to see ...

Startup hopes to overhaul how researchers publish papers, making them freely available to all and substituting social-network success for the traditional peer-review process. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Academia.edu, a social network for scholars, is unveiling a new feature today that its founder Richard Price hopes will help address part of the “credit gap” for research. Academia.edu allows users to ...

Even though it’s taken for granted that you have to manage your own personal brand on the web, that still isn’t necessarily the case in the slower-moving world of academia. But it’s starting to happen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...