Academia.edu – creating a digital CV and a scientific achievement database
The most important functionalities:
- scholar’s identification: a portal with millions of users and high visibility in browsers
- self-archiving: publishing and organizing one’s own papers
- announces articles, publishes journals and conference calls for papers, informs the users about academic job opportunities
- access to basic analytical data which enable impact monitoring
- the estimated impact factor based on the number of readers and text views as well as the PaperRank of a paper (a function of the number of recommendations the paper has received, weighted by the AuthorRanks of the recommenders) and the AuthorRank of the authors (depending on the PaperRank number)
- the paid version offers access to various statistics, a citation search engine and detailed information on text readers
Recommended mostly to academic teachers and students:
- trying to enhance their visibility on the Internet
- willing to publish their research results regularly and stay informed about research conducted all over the world
- interested in the impact factor of their own research
- willing to create a repository of their own scientific publications
- looking for a platform for publishing invitations to their research projects
- looking for a job in international research teams