You can adjust your profile privacy in the Privacy Settings under Account Settings. Options include hiding your name in authors' analytics, making your analytics public or private, displaying your Academia Premium badge, controlling the visibility of your bookmarked papers, and managing co-author interaction settings. Remember to save changes after adjusting settings.
Find your Privacy Settings
You can make some parts of your profile private in your Privacy Settings page. Go to your Account Settings, then click Privacy Settings to see your options.
If you don't see any of the options listed, make sure to scroll down.
Click Save below any of the settings you changed to finalize them.
Privacy Settings you can change
Below is a complete list of the privacy options you can change.
Analytics
- Hide my name and affiliation in authors' analytics: Academia Premium users can see who has viewed their papers. If you don't want our Academia Premium users to see when you view their papers, you can make yourself anonymous by clicking "Hide my name and affiliation in authors' analytics."
- Make my Analytics public: Your analytics are private by default. Checking this box will make them public. If you have made your analytics public and would like to make them private again, uncheck this box.
Premium Badge
Display my Academia Premium badge: Displays an insignia next to your name that shows others you're an Academia Premium member. Checking this box will display this badge next to your name for all to see. Very stylish.
Papers you've bookmarked
Publicly save to your Bookmarks: When you download a paper, it is automatically bookmarked so you can easily return to it on the site. If you no longer want other your followers to see what papers you're downloading or bookmarking, you can uncheck this box.
Co-authors
Academia provides a number of options regarding how you interact with co-authors on your published papers. Feel free to adjust them as you see fit.