Academia.edu is an American commercial social networking website for academics. It began as a free and open repository of academic journal articles and was awarded a.edu domain name. However, Academia.edu now restricts all access to subscribers and charges fees to put authors in contact with their own readers. More information...
In June 2020 the website academia.edu was on the 106th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 153rd place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "academia.edu" is the 129th most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before imf.org and after wired.com in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
BestRef shows popularity and reliability scores for sources in references of Wikipedia articles in different languages. Data extraction based on complex method using Wikimedia dumps. To find the most popular and reliable sources we used information about over 200 million references of Wikipedia articles. More details...