Academia's Analytics feature offers a convenient way to track how your papers and profile are doing on Academia.edu. With the free tier, you can click on the following tabs in your Analytics to view your performance metrics:
We'll cover each of these Analytics tabs below.
Overview
Your Overview is the landing page of your Analytics, which is a high-level summary of your profile views, paper views, and unique visitors.
Scroll down to view a free User Activity log, which includes the following information:
- The approximate date your content was viewed
- Your viewer's city, state, and country (to the best that we know)
- What content the viewer saw and where it was sourced from
Unique Visitors are sorted by people visiting your page and not individual views of your page.
Impact
Use the Impact tab to understand how your work has contributed to other members of Academia and the areas where your work is most influential.
Papers
Papers is a document-centric view of your library. This tab identifies which specific uploads are gaining traction, helping you determine which of your research topics are currently "trending."
Scroll down this page to see a breakdown of your views for each paper:
| Metric | Definition |
|---|---|
| 30-Day views | The total number of times your paper’s specific page was visited. This includes repeat visits by the same user. |
| 30-Day uniques | The number of distinct individuals who viewed your paper. If one person views the same paper five times, it counts as 5 "Views" but only 1 "Unique." |
| 30-Day downloads | The total count of users who saved the file to their device. This can happen directly from the paper page, an email notification, or the news feed. |
| All-time views | Shows you all of the views that have ever existed for this paper. |
| All-time downloads | Shows you all of the downloads that have ever occurred for this paper. |
Countries
In the Countries tab, you'll see a geographic list of the countries where your viewers are located (just a reminder, this is to the best of our knowledge).
Seeing how your papers impact people around the world can influence your next big idea, like where you might want to have your work published.
Keywords
The Keywords tab shows you exactly what someone typed into a search engine when they found your profile page or paper page. Knowing your most popular keywords is useful for seeing which specific search terms are more relevant to your audience.
Our free Academia users can see the:
- Approximate time they were searched for
- Search ranking where we displayed the page, and the page title.
We might recommend your papers to people based on a variety of factors, like the person's interests, their past reading history, and whether the words they searched for occur in your page.
External Links
Tracks "Referral" traffic. This is significant for seeing if your work is being discussed or linked on external blogs, news sites, or social media platforms.
Other Analytics tabs
Our free Academia users do not have access to Profile Visitors, Readers, or CV analytics.