Academia.edu
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-13
Access to search interface:
paywalled
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
Academia, Inc.
Location of system headquarters:
San Francisco, US
Year of launch:
2008
Type:
Repository
Twitter:
Description of search system (by system owner)
Academia is a platform for sharing academic research. Academics have uploaded 55 million papers, and 95 million academics, professionals, and students read papers on Academia every month.
Total coverage:
104.27M
Year-over-year growth (2022-2023):
-45.24%
Subject coverage:
Multidisciplinary
Retrospective coverage:
1938–2024
Record types:
4
Open Access records:
N/A
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
limited
Backward citation searching:
limited
Forward citation searching:
limited
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
2
Query
Latency with short query:
4.2 seconds
Latency with long query:
8.75 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
2
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
100 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
100 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
3
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
4
Results filters:
3
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
N/A
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
N/A
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
10000
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
1
Export formats:
0
API:
no
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
0
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
0
