Academia.edu & The Future of Science
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Academia.edu is a social platform with over 1.8 million academic users that aims to reshape science by allowing for instant distribution of research papers and data to provide broader access worldwide, as well as more robust peer review through real-time social discovery and commentary on research instead of traditional closed reviews. It also seeks to develop new credibility metrics in science by surfacing opinions from the entire scientific community.
Academia.edu & The Future of Science
- 1. Academia.edu & The Future of Science
- 2. Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers 1.8 million users, adding 4,000 a day.
- 3. Profile Scientists engaging directly with their audience
- 4. Analytics New credibility metrics in science
- 5. News Feed Social discovery of research
- 6. Four things we want to achieve with Academia.edu - ways we want to re-shape science
- 7. Instant distribution Removal of 12 month time-lags
- 8. Multi-media Data-sets, code, videos, blog posts, comments
- 9. Open access A villager in India should have the same access to the world’s scientific output as a professor at Harvard
- 10. More robust and agile Peer Review Surface opinions from the entire scientific community in real time, rather than wait 12 months for opinions from 2 people
- 11. Credibility metrics Credibility metrics are the fulcrum on which science is going to pivot
- 12. Stay in touch! We’re hiring Engineers richard@academia.edu @richardprice100 http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice