Academia.edu, an Internet startup trying to bring the social dynamics of LinkedIn and Facebook to researchers’ professional communications, has raised $11.1 million in a second round of funding. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Academia.edu, a social network for researchers, is having a good year. In 2011 it’s tripled its total registered userbase to 800,000, and today it’s announcing some major news that ensures the site ...

Far away from Silicon Valley is another echo chamber in the Ivory Tower, except there’s very little transparency there about how content and ideas spread. Academia.edu, a social network for ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I did an email interview with Dr. Price about ...

When it comes to technology, I am not exactly an early adopter. Often I never bother to adopt at all. I own no Kindle, no iPad, no iPod. I have no Facebook account. But I’m no Luddite. I use audio and ...