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Usually when you study/work on an university, you get an email address with the university domain (e.g. jorge@mit.edu). Those are used in many places as a simp
by JD557 9y ago
Usually when you study/work on an university, you get an email address with the university domain (e.g. jorge@mit.edu).
Those are used in many places as a simple way to validate that you are a student or a researcher.
- avian 9y agoThe important part here is "usually". It should be stressed that using lists (such as SWOT mentioned in another comment here) can add to the bias towards US and other well-known universities. I have been involved in academia for 10 years now, and I never held an email address that would match against the SWOT list.
- JorgeGT 9y agoOps, I meant to ask how they were validating academic addresses. I'm actually a postdoc, but my university domain is @upv.es, and I've found that sometimes it doesn't get recognized in American websites which expect a .edu for claiming academic discounts or things like that. @bringtheaction comment mentioning SWOT is an interesting solution. Although the name of my institution is outdated! I'll send a PR.