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by RichardPrice 14y ago
The basic idea is that the research papers should be open access 6 months after publication. 6 months is enough for publishers to recoup their costs of publication. The reality is that publishers make all their money from site licenses. Har
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In practice that death star response probably only took an hour or two to write. However, figuring out federal policy on research is really tricky, and there are many stakeholders. The fundamental problem is that the White House would like
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Academia.edu was very active in working with the White House to spread the word about this petition when it first came out, and getting signatures for the petition to hit the 25k threshold. The White House hasn't responded to it because ini
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We plan to monetize via charging R&D firms for access to 'trending research' data - data about which papers are trending in a given area of research. I am a firm believer that the participants in the scientific community, and the world
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Many people are discussing the future of research sharing right now. As one of the largest platforms on the web for sharing research, and since someone submitted this link (not me), it seems appropriate to give our view on how we think abou
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Opening up research is a critical part of Academia.edu's mission. There are four things we are trying to achieve with Academia.edu - ways in which we want to re-shape science. - Instant distribution. Right now there is a 12 month time-lag b
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. Remote is fine too. Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. Many people think that science is too closed, and too s
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One Hypothesis About the Role of Philosophy(richardprice.io)
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The Fetishization of Sex as a Growth Strategy for Religions(richardprice.io)
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San Francisco, CA. Full time. Remote is fine too. Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. Many people think that science is too closed, and too s
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Reluctant to provide an example? In my comment above I said that all the companies at the conference were examples of effective growth teams. I suggest that we respectfully agree to disagree.
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An amusing quote, but I don't think Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Pincus, and the CEOs of the other companies are all being deceived by fatter lines on a graph!
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Every company at the conference was an example of the effectiveness of growth teams. Facebook, LinkedIn, Zynga, Twitter and so on have all found that being rigorous about optimizing their growth models has increased growth and engagement. T
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It's a good question. You need to find a leading indicator that really is causal of engagement, and not just tangentially correlated with it. Chamath stressed how critical it is to both minimize the time it takes to deliver a user their fir
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
Thanks for the typo correction re. Dropbox - fixed.
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It's harder than you are suggesting to find a leading indicator of future engagement. You want to find a metric that is relatively foundational, and is going to produce engagement across a variety of dimensions later on (visit frequency, te
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It would actually be good to be able to get leading indicators of enraged users too!
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Growth hacking: Leading indicators of engaged users(richardprice.io)
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Thanks for these ideas. We host whatever version the user uploads; sometimes that is a .doc or latex file, but mostly it's a pdf. Thanks for your perspective on data-sharing - interesting ideas.
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Many people think that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change that. There are 4 things we are trying to achieve with Academia.edu - ways in which we are trying to re-shape and accelerate science: - Instant distribution
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
See http://www.quora.com/How-did-Academia.edu-get-the-.edu-domai...
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Academia.edu Overhauls Profiles As Researchers Grow Their Personal Brands(techcrunch.com)
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San Francisco, CA. Full time. Remote is fine too. Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. We believe that science is dysfunctional, and we are wo
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San Francisco, CA. Full time. Remote is fine too. Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. We believe that science is dysfunctional, and we are wo
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There are a number of sites that have historically shown simple counters for downloads etc, and Mendeley is one of them, but Academia.edu has led the way in terms of building a powerful analytics product that shows analytics for a scientist
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The metrics are just for papers uploaded to Academia.edu (as stated in my previous commment). I think real time metrics will come to other research sharing platforms. Academia.edu is leading the way here. I would question your assumption th
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We are working on an API, to allow developers to hook into our academic graph. We've thought about the use-case you are talking about, and may well try to handle it.
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The analytics track the impact of papers that you have uploaded to Academia.edu. More and more scientists are aware that they want a profile where they can easily share their work, and which celebrates them as a scientist. Academia.edu help
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Currently the Dashboard tracks pageviews of your papers, broken down into various dimensions - by traffic source, by country etc. It also shows search engine keywords that drive traffic to your page/papers. The key thing here is that if you
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Academia.edu Adds Analytics To Bring Transparency To How Research Spreads(techcrunch.com)
21 points by RichardPrice 14y ago|12 comments

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