[FRIAM] ​Academia.edu​

[Nick Thompson]

RG projects have some interesting features.  In the first place, temporal order is preserved, so, if they had an archiving function, one could preserve the logical order of comments and responses very easily.  Second, they have a "mention" function, so that if your comment is directed to particular people, and you mention their names, they will receive notification.  Thus, if you have written something that you hope that some person in particular will respond to,it is easy to alert them.  It also has a citation, function which I like.  So if one of my papers is relevant to some argument in the project comment section, I can easily direct attention to a relevant paper.  

All of these features could be expanded in various ways, but I have found no way to get into a constructive exchange with RG staff.  I can't imagine that they are making any money doing what they are doing, and they are not doing nearly as much good as they might. 

Perhaps, Owen, you should start a thread on Wikipedia .... R.G vs Academe, and we should all compare features.  

Thanks for your comments, 

Nick

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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I think I'm on both RG and Academia, since I get emails from both, but haven't really found their value add yet, over and above using arXiv for publishing preprints, and Google Scholar for citation metrics.

Like most social networks, they integrate very poorly with email (by actively discouraging participation by email), effectively rendering them invisible to me. I have a hard enough time as it is keeping up with email, so there's nothing left over to go monitoring any social network site.

But I never say never... Even Farcebook might get me one day :).

BTW - anyone still subscribed to comdig via email? I complained to Carlos when I caught up with him in Mexico City last year that since comdig went over to LinkedIn, I haven't been able to get the feed, and he said that the old email list was still running, but I can't seem to find a way to subscribe to it.

On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 02:35:31PM -0600, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
> Hey Owen, I like it a lot.
> 
> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
> 
> > Does any here use ​Academia.edu​?
> >
> > They are maturing slowly but surely and I'm wondering if they're 
> > soon to be the LinkedIn for published papers.
> >
> > They recently sent an invite to have your own page, and I wondered 
> > if it was worth it, or maybe scamy/phishy.
> >
> >    -- Owen
> >
> > [image: Inline image 1]
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