Academia

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Academia.edu is a network and information website which does two things:

• It displays academics around the world in a tree format, according to what university/department they are affiliated with.
• It enables an academic to have an easy-to-maintain academic webpage. A sample page on Academia.edu is here: http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice

In December 2008, it had over 85,000 academic papers uploaded and more than 20,000 academics featured in the 'tree'.