Academia
Academia (Academia.edu, Academia Inc.) is a San Francisco based platform for sharing and discovering academic research, founded in 2008 by Richard Price. Registered researchers upload papers, build public profiles, follow research interests and track readership analytics across a corpus of tens of millions of documents, and the company also runs the Academia journals program and sells Academia Premium subscriptions for advanced search, mentions, reader analytics and bulk PDF downloads. Academia publishes no public developer program, API reference or machine-readable specification; the /v0 JSON endpoints its own web client calls are explicitly disallowed to crawlers in robots.txt. It does publish an RFC 9116 security.txt with a named security contact and a disclosure posture, and a long per-crawler robots.txt that names AI and agent user-agents individually.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Academia the way a machine reads it — 2 machine-readable artifacts, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Academia scores 14.0/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 3/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Why this profile is thin
Academia.edu is an end-user research-sharing product with no developer program of any kind - its own 2,624-line robots.txt enumerates the whole site with no /developers, /docs or API-reference section and Disallows the internal /v0/* JSON endpoints its web client calls to every named crawler, and the GitHub org's 81 public repositories are all internal Rails tooling and forks with no client SDK or specification.
This is an honest zero, not a gap in our research. Academia does not appear to expose an API, so there is nothing here for us to index and nothing for them to fix.
What we probed
https://www.academia.edu/llms.txt→ HTTP 404https://www.academia.edu/.well-known/api-catalog→ HTTP 404https://www.academia.edu/.well-known/agent-card.json→ HTTP 404https://www.academia.edu/robots.txt→ HTTP 200https://www.academia.edu/.well-known/security.txt→ HTTP 200https://www.academia.edu/→ HTTP 403
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
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How we profile Academia
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Academia. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Academia — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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This is an independent, third-party profile of Academia, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.
The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.
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