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Academia.edu has eaten their lunch. Don't know if two compare deeply but people use academia.edu more than anything else I know in this category.
by webwanderings 9y ago
Academia.edu has eaten their lunch. Don't know if two compare deeply but people use academia.edu more than anything else I know in this category.
- steren 9y agoacademia.edu? you mean this website that is entirely behind a login wall?
- sackofmugs 9y agoThat's funny, because I was just thinking how Academia.edu has become a joke site, while everyone in my field uses Google Scholar daily. It's almost impossible to find references, put together a bib list, or navigate through related work without Google Scholar.
- SubiculumCode 9y agoPeople in my field use Google Scholar and NIH for search, but researchgate as a kind of cv.
- kensai 9y agoRG is also used to ask question and get some really useful answers. At least in my field (biomedicine) the community is very helpful.
- dpq 9y agoInstead of becoming a more or less of a clone of Facebook news feed for researchers, RG has become infuriatingly full of nag boxes, and in its efforts to get you use the website more prevents you from actually using it at all.
- frozenport 9y agoI disagree. Most posts are manuscripts, or parts of them. It really helps for me to keep up with my field.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoThat sounds exactly like Facebook.
- SubiculumCode 9y agoSome are useful. But it has begun to cross the line. For example, the nags for their new feature for organizing research into projects are annoying, and then I started getting notices that a deadline was approaching for an update to my project. Eff that. I have plenty of real deadlines already.
- jccalhoun 9y agoI never use academia.edu unless it shows up in the search results. I see no advantage to posting my work on their web site when I could post it on my own site just as easily.