Academia

aid: academia
name: Academia
description: Academia (Academia.edu, Academia Inc.) is a San Francisco based platform for sharing and discovering academic
  research, founded in 2008 by Richard Price. Registered researchers upload papers, build public profiles, follow research
  interests and track readership analytics across a corpus of tens of millions of documents, and the company also runs the
  Academia journals program and sells Academia Premium subscriptions for advanced search, mentions, reader analytics and bulk
  PDF downloads. Academia publishes no public developer program, API reference or machine-readable specification; the /v0
  JSON endpoints its own web client calls are explicitly disallowed to crawlers in robots.txt. It does publish an RFC 9116
  security.txt with a named security contact and a disclosure posture, and a long per-crawler robots.txt that names AI and
  agent user-agents individually.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://www.academia.edu/favicon.ico
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/academia/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profile
x-tier-reason: enriched-no-developer-program
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Company
- Academic Research
- research-papers
- Scholarly Publishing
- Higher Education
- Open Access
- academic-social-network
- Preprints
- research-discovery
tags_raw:
- Company
- academic-research
- research-papers
- scholarly-publishing
- higher-education
- open-access
- academic-social-network
- preprints
- research-discovery
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/academia-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.academia.edu/.well-known/security.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/academia-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.academia.edu/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.academia.edu/hc/en-us
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/academia-edu
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.academia.edu/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.academia.edu/privacy
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/academia-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/academia-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/academia-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-06'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: Academia.edu is an end-user research-sharing product with no developer program of any kind - its own 2,624-line
    robots.txt enumerates the whole site with no /developers, /docs or API-reference section and Disallows the internal /v0/*
    JSON endpoints its web client calls to every named crawler, and the GitHub org's 81 public repositories are all internal
    Rails tooling and forks with no client SDK or specification.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.academia.edu/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.academia.edu/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.academia.edu/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.academia.edu/robots.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.academia.edu/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.academia.edu/
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-08-06'