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Knowledge Mobilization & Impact: Academia.edu

A selection of web tools that support scholarly research activities across the research lifecycle.

Academia.edu

Academia.edu
"Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow."

How Academia.edu Supports Research

What's the Research-Related Purpose?

To create exposure for your research-related publications by adding them to your user profile.
To provide a forum to connect and collaborate with other academic researchers.
To provide a metric that estimates the impact of research publications.

Additional Information:

Academia.edu is a for-profit commercial site and it is recommended that users read the site's Terms of Use.

Further Reading:

A social networking site is not an open access repository (2015, Dec)
Source: Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California
What does Academia_edu’s success mean for Open Access? The data-driven world of search engines and social networking (2015, October)
Gary Hall is Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University

University of Lethbridge Examples: Academic.edu