Understanding your Analytics Overview

Your Analytics page is a personalized summary of your profile and paper performance on Academia. It shows detailed insights on how students, researchers, and academics engage with your work. This article specifically covers what you'll see in the Overview tab of your Analytics page.

Finding the Analytics Overview

The Overview is the first page you'll see when you click the "Analytics" button. You can see the Analytics button in the top navigation bar on the Academia.edu website. Or, click on your name and profile photo at the top-right corner of the website, then click "Analytics" to get there.

Your Overview will show you data over the past 30 days, with an option to view the past 60 days. Academia does not keep any analytical data beyond 60 days.

Downloading a copy of your Analytics

You can also export your data as a CSV. Click the Download button to export a copy of the current data you're viewing.

Looking at your Traffic Overview

The Traffic Overview at the top of the page shows you the users who have viewed your profile and papers and how this data has trended over time.

• Profile views: The number of times your profile has been viewed.
• Document views: The number of times all of your papers have been viewed.
• Unique visitors: How many individual people have visited your papers AND your profile.

Each time someone views your profile or document, it counts as a view. Unique views count each person only once.

Looking at User Activity logs

Scroll down to User Activity to see the logs of past user activity Academia has recorded for your profile and documents.

For free, we'll tell you more details about the visitor, like the:

1. Date that the activity occurred
2. City, state, and country where the activity originated from (to the best of our knowledge)
3. Content that was viewed and its source

Academia Premium members will also see their role and university as well as how many pages they read. If you're interested in being a part of our Academia Premium service, it's easy to sign up!

Pro-tips: Other things you can see and do:

• Follow the engagement history on your profile: Hover over an entry in the logs to have Academia highlight other related activity from this person and follow their journey across your pages.
• Quickly jump to your visitor's affiliation: Click on the University to be taken directly to their affiliation directory on Academia
• View the source and the pages that referred your content:
  • Click the Content title to jump to the page your visitor viewed
  • Click the Source to visit the website the hit originated from

See other free features available in Analytics.