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As Academia.edu Grows, Some Scholars Voice Concerns

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Gary Hall, a professor at Coventry U., questions the for-profit company Academia.edu’s role in academe: "It’s not funding research. It’s not funding universities. It’s inserting itself as an intermediary."
By Ellen Wexler December 02, 2015 Premium content for subscribers. Subscribe Today

For Academia.edu, numbers matter.

Numbers are how the website promotes itself — more than 29 million registered users have posted more than eight million academic papers to the site, the "about" page boasts — and numbers are how the site makes...

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