If you're interested in seeing a breakdown of views and downloads for your papers, you can see that in the Analytics submenu, Papers!
View paper analytics
- Go to Analytics.
- Select Papers.
- Review the Paper Engagement chart at the top for your Views and Downloads in the last 30 days.
- Scroll down to see a table of views and downloads for each paper you’ve uploaded to Academia.
What you'll see here
Here’s what each metric in your paper analytics means, so you can read your stats accurately.
- View: Counts the total number of times someone opened the paper on Academia.edu. They may not have downloaded the paper, but they've definitely seen it.
- Unique views: Number of individual people who opened the paper. If the same person visits your paper page multiple times, those visits count as multiple views, but only one unique view.
- Download: How many times your paper was downloaded. Downloads can happen from all kinds of places on the site, like an email link, the related works sidebar, or the news feed, even if they do not open the paper page first. If a person downloads from the news feed, for example, this doesn't constitute as a view.
- Impact (Academia Premium): Click this button to see a comprehensive breakdown of how your paper's influence is spreading globally.