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: '0.23'
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
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'