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Academia

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Education Provider
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Medical education
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Addiction Medicine, Community health, Community and Primary Health Care, Education and Research, Research
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Our mission is to accelerate the world's research

156,000,000+
registered users

22,000,000+
uploaded papers

31,000,000+
visitors per month

About Academia

Academia is a platform for sharing academic research. Academics have uploaded 22 million papers, and 31 million academics, professionals, and students read papers on Academia every month.

Our Story

IDEA
Richard Price, the founder of Academia.edu, had the idea for the company when finishing his PhD at Oxford in philosophy.
As Richard was finishing his PhD, he decided he wanted to have a homepage where he could say “this is who I am; this is what I have been working on; here are my papers.” At the time, Oxford offered a few megabytes of space for personal websites, and you had to write your own HTML, and FTP files to the server yourself. Richard thought “there should be a one-click way of creating a homepage, and uploading papers. Having a homepage shouldn't require technical ability.” Richard asked a few of his fellow graduate students, and they felt the same way.
Why us
MISSION

The mission of Academia.edu is to accelerate the world's research. Our goal is to speed up research in every domain - finding a solution to climate change; finding cures for diseases; evolving artificial intelligence.
We want to accelerate research in all these fields, and others too.

Our guiding philosophy is that people want:

* Research to be free

* Research that is relevant to be recommended to them

* Signals that help them evaluate the truth/falsity of what they are reading

* Research to be presented in the right format, for easy comprehension

The end result is:

* Research is accelerated: research towards solving the world's problems is accelerated.

* Research is democratized: everyone has access to it.
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