I will keep a profile in Academia.edu only until everyone moves to ResearchGate. I can't wait for that to happen. Academia.edu does not let the user decide what they want to do, but prioritizes whatever makes the user do what they want them to do. For instance, I don't want to add full papers because they charge for their services AND fill everything with advertisements. However, they take the papers from the internet and then force you to add them to your profile in order to be able to add a reference you do want to add. Then, you cannot add co-authors because it does not recognize any email. They want you to add your co-authors and their emails so that they can keep a register of authors and emails to use for advertisement. When you do so, you cannot decide on the order of the authors. They have no way to merge duplicate references and they keep duplicating your references every time they find any paper online. It is a disaster. If you're reading this, please use ResearchGate instead or promote some other alternative so that we don't have to waste our time with Academia.edu. I have no relationship to ResearchGate or Academia.edu other than being a user (happy one for ResearchGate and highly dissatisfied user for Academia.edu).Edit: And they keep asking to do work for them for free. See their reply. I’ve done that ticket thing a thousand times. Well, maybe fewer times, but it feels like a thousand because tickets don’t work. They keep providing useless “solutions”.
