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 ...

Here is the page that the link took me: Then I clicked the “Upgrade to view your Mentions” button. That took me to this page: What do you think? Is academia.edu worth the $99 a year? My strong ...

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 ...