New Academia.edu Dashboard Shows Real-Time Impact of Research. By Calvin Reid

Looking to measure and visualize the real-time usage of online scientific research, Academia.edu, a social platform for sharing scientific research, is launching an Analytics Dashboard on the site that gives scientists immediate feedback on the level of traffic accessing their content online. The new dashboard provides a dynamic real-time graphical interface that shows the number of people viewing a document, what search engines are driving the traffic and what country the viewers are from.