info COmpany background & INFO
What is Academia?
Academia.edu is a mix between an online repository largely of academic published works and a social network for academics and academically-minded people.
It's currently cutting into the publishing industry which is dominated by major players—most infamously—Elsevier.
Registered Users
175 Million
DAILY Active users
1.17 Million
iOS Daily ACTIVE USERS
160 Thousand
Android DAILY ACTIVE USERS
240 Thousand
works uploaded
33 Million (~32% of all published papers)
CORE USERS
Researchers
Graduates
Professors
Undergrads
Non-Academics
GENERAL SUMMARY
Its core business model includes a suite of academic tools & products that are available through a paid subscription service over a basic freemium experience.
Recently the company has launched a new journal utilizing its base to speed up the dilatory pace at which papers are published, some of the core experiences which I have designed.
While at Academia I worked on marketing & funnel optimizations, native app launches, new desktop/web experiences, its new journal, & its latest iteration of its design system.
