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Academia.edu

Who runs Academia.edu, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic social network alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Couldn’t check
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
ResearchGate

Measured from Academia.edu’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Academia.edu

Academia.edu academia.edu

Wikidata: open repository of academic articles

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience

02 · Privacy

What Academia.edu tracks

We couldn’t read academia.edu’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so we can’t say what it loads.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Academia.edu

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree plan

None of the 60 sites closest to Academia.edu match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Academia.edu adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 8 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
37 ms

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