Academia.edu & The Future of Science

Academia.edu &The Future of Science

Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers

1.8 million users, adding 4,000 a day.

ProfileScientists engaging directly with their audience

AnalyticsNew credibility metrics in science

News FeedSocial discovery of research

Four things we want to achieve with Academia.edu - ways we want to re-shape science

Instant distributionRemoval of 12 month time-lags

Multi-mediaData-sets, code, videos, blog posts, comments

Open accessA villager in India should have the same access to

the world’s scientific output as a professor at Harvard

More robust and agile Peer ReviewSurface opinions from the entire scientific community in real time, rather than wait 12 months for opinions from 2 people

Credibility metricsCredibility metrics are the fulcrum on which

science is going to pivot

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