Academia

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.

Academia is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, academic-research, research-papers, scholarly-publishing, and higher-education.

Academia’s developer surface includes support and 10 more developer resources.

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14.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

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Companyacademic-researchresearch-papersscholarly-publishinghigher-educationopen-accessacademic-social-networkpreprintsresearch-discovery

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

Composite quality — 14.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

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.
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: '0.20'
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
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'

Academia

Kin Score

Security Posture 2

Academia Domain Security

Academia Vulnerability Disclosure

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