Academia.edu - Share research

Academia.edu is an academic social networking site specifically designed for researchers to use. This website was created by Richard Price while pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Oxford. It can help researchers strengthen communication and connections with each other, share their latest academic research papers, and benefit more people with their research results.

On Academia.edu, users can share and view their latest research papers for free, and the website also uses its unique analysis tools to help researchers check the number of people reading their own research papers.

According to statistics, Academia.edu has over 234000000 registered researchers and has uploaded over 48000000 academic research papers. The website has a monthly unique visitor count of over 74000000, with many visitors entering the page through Google search.

In addition, Academia.edu also provides some online tools for users to create homepages and upload papers without any technical skills required.

Overall, Academia.edu is a platform for professional communication and sharing among researchers, aimed at accelerating the global research process.

Richard Price, the founder of Academia.edu, had the idea of starting this company when he completed his PhD in philosophy at Oxford University.

When Richard completed his doctoral degree, he decided to have a homepage where he could say, 'This is me; this is what I've been doing; this is my credentials.' At that time, Oxford University provided a few megabytes of space for personal websites, and you had to write HTML and FTP files to the server yourself. Richard believes that "there should be a click to create a homepage and upload papers. Having a homepage should not require technical skills." Richard asked several of his graduate classmates, and they shared the same feeling.

In the early stages, the most important thing was growth: the increase in users and the upload of papers. In the first few months, we grew at a linear rate. Sometimes there are 37 users joining, 42 on the second day, and 38 on the third day. One year later, our user base reached 50000, and someone posted on Facebook, "Congratulations; cheers to 500000 users." Richard remembers thinking to himself, "Wow, that's too much. Calculated at linear speed, this will take 10 times more time than it does now

We started calculating the exponential growth and reached 500000 users, then quickly reached 1 million users. Currently, 234 million users have joined Academia.edu, with approximately 140000 people joining Academia.edu every day.

The mission of Academia. edu is to accelerate research in the world. Our goal is to accelerate research in various fields - to find solutions to climate change; Searching for treatment methods for diseases; Evolutionary artificial intelligence.

We hope to accelerate research in all these areas as well as other fields.

business model

The academic community has a "freemium" business model that provides free research to everyone and pays additional fees to subscribers. Subscribing to Academia Premium allows researchers to access advanced research discovery tools and provides authors with enhanced analysis and impact tracking tools. Our over 260000 premium subscribers bear the cost of conducting free research and fulfilling our mission.