Academia.edu – $4.5M in Funding, 3M Unique Monthly Visitors – Can They Change Science Publication?

Singularity HUb reporting:
Don’t call it “Facebook for Scientists” – it’s not about socializing, it’s about knowledge. Academia.edu may appear to be a social network, but it’s actually focused on allowing scholars all over the world to publish their research papers and easily distribute them to anybody with a search engine. Academia.edu also meticulously tracks web traffic for each paper, generating hoards of statistics about who is reading what and when. This one-two combination of distribution and analysis makes Academia.edu a potent new force in research, and a growing presence among scholars all over the globe. The site has tripled in size this year reaching 800,000 registered users and more than 3 million unique monthly visitors. 2500 academic papers are posted and 3500 new scholars join every day! On top of that success, Academia.edu has just announced a breakthrough round of funding, attracting $4.5 million from investors including Spark Capital and True Ventures.

MERJA: you cn find my work in Academia.edu also

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