Academia Anmeldelser 826

Academia.edu has completely unauthorizedly, without any warning or receipt, charged me nearly 600 euros — twice, within a few minutes — without any reason or proof!

Leggere che col nostro lavoro truffano la gente è vergognoso ed è per questo che ho cancellato tutto ciò che avevo inserito sul sito. Non sarò complice di questi personaggi e consiglio anche a voi di fare la stessa cosa. Meritano solo di scomparire.

Even though you canceled, it automatically renews and steals your money. I'm glad that Academia.edu, like in my case, at least creates jobs with its unjust profits. But I laughed quite a bit at the polite nonsense that customer grievances contribute to science.

Un desastre!! Por favor que eliminen ya esta IA!

Unbeknownst to me, Academia increased the annual Premium price from $99 to $249 in 2024, after eight years of my paying $99. I didn't receive any warning of the 2024 price increase. If so, then I would have immediately cancelled. They just notified me that the price will increase yet again by 55% in 2025 to nearly $400 per year. They are out of their minds. Why isn't the Better Business Bureau going after them for predatory price jacking? This time, I cancelled the Premium membership, and they offered a 25% discount if I would reconsider. Please do not fall for it. ResearchGate or Google Scholar, though imperfect, are much better than Academia.

This is the worst company ever, I signed up because I thought it would be helpful for my studies. Only to be charged a auto renewal subscription without any authorization from me. Now these losers are refusing to refund my money. They are a scam and I will never use their services ever again and I will make everyone aware that I know in my college to never use them. Ones hard earned money just taken, it's fraud.

I joined Academia in 2014 and I began paying USD $ 99 for a Premium membership in 2022, then US$ 173 (2023) , US$ 249 (2024), and finally without any warning they charged me US$ 379 for 2025. I asked for an explanation (maybe the rise of AI increased their costs...) and this is the answer I got:
"I am sorry for any confusion or frustration around our current pricing structure. We are looking to expand our feature set, and we need to make sure we are prepared financially to make investments in our core product. Essentially, our previous subscription costs only allowed us to move forward with our current feature set, but our additional subscription fees will allow us to grow our organization enough to experiment and expand to new features.We should have sent you an email regarding this price increase before you were billed the new amount, though it may have gone to your spam folder."
I checked (spam and trash folders included) and I never got a warning email. I have got other mails from them though... So beware, if your renewal date is coming up soon.
Now I am requesting for a reversal of their abusive charge for an overpriced service (whose terms and conditions were draconian, as pointed out by some perspicacious colleagues of mine). In my view ResearchGate or Google scholar work better, for free. Academia is still not able to tell Soto-Andrade, from Soto and from Andrade, regarding my authors; names, for instance... I am planning to delete my account soon.

Stay away! Total scam - renew your subscription without warning and refuse refunds of EXORBITANT charge. I cancelled on the day of my renewal and they still charged me and are now refusing to refund me.

Ich hatte vor 2 Jahren ein Abo abgeschlossen, dieses aber nicht erneuert. Nun wurden von meiner Kreditkarte ohne Benachrichtigung 338 € abgebucht - ohne mich zu verständigen, ohne meine Einwilligung. Ein betrügerisches Unternehmen. Ich kann nur davor warnen!

I have given a two-star even though I have the same complaints as other people, exactly.
Academia.edu is still a platform for a lot of research works that otherwise we may never see, and access to academics and scholars from many countries presenting their findings.
Keep your free subscription and still read single papers as you need them, or download them.

Just don't fall for fanning your ego because they send you emails that others are looking at your work or including it in their research, because that is the lure.
Finally, there is no doubt this online site "support" is mainly run by bots with automated messages and largely absent oversight. Otherwise they would have more care for their subscribers, and would be more in tune with them by reviewing all their own practises of fee notification and not just siphoning off cash.

Subscriptions were cancelled but they continue to send charges through. This is nothing more than an app searching your name in journals and charging you hundreds of dollars per year for this. They won't cancel so I've had to block them on my credit card.

Ahora resulta que SIN NUESTRO CONSENTIMIENTO todos los papers que subamos van para la IA (por favor revisad los que podáis los ajustes de la cuenta). También me he enterado de que tengo otra cuenta que ni conocía, a la que no puedo acceder, con mi nombre completo y tres papers subidos que no tengo manera de borrar, ni acceder. No es nada ético esto. Les he pedido ayuda para poder acceder a dicha cuenta (porque no me deja con ninguno de mis correos, no entiendo nada). En fin, una cosa es compartir conocimiento y otra bien distinta es que este pulule por la red sin tener en cuenta el trabajo de nadie, ni su contribución ni nada (por no hablar de que vale lo mismo copiar y pegar de aquí a allá como hace la Ia, que un artículo que ha seguido una metodología científica). Vaya tiempo nos espera para el conocimiento... mucho miedo me da todo esto. Es necesaria YA una legislación sólida por parte de las instituciones, porque estamos poniendo a prueba años de investigación y búsqueda del conocimiento y de la verdad.

Their continued "your name cited in a research" emails luring me to get their premium subscription have to stop once and for all. This is ridiculous.

Used Academia.edu for some years as an academic exchange, paying about 99€/year. Today they charged me with 188€ without announcing the price increase and without my consent.
My refund process via PayPal is still in process, but I'll definitely leave Academia.edu with this lost in trust as well as this money making scam for quite no service or academic benefits. I would therefore advise you against using academia.edu!

This is a disgraceful organisation. They tricked me into an 'auto renewal' package and are refusing to refund me. They did not send me any warnings about renewal dates. It is scam.

Abofalle. Nach dem einmonatigen Trail für 1€ wurden mir ohne Vorwarnung 117,81€ abgebucht.

Addebito inaspettato di circa 150 euro. Truffa. Imbroglio

Increases prices and keeps billing

This is a scam. If you subscribe for premium, you will receive a mail a year later with a lot of marketing blurb and at the very end of the mail a note that they are increasing your subscription fee by 25 - 50% for the renewal; a week later you have a payment on your card. When you then try to cancel, you see a page which gives you the impression you have cancelled, but there's a little button at the bottom which you still have to press - only if you go through five or six of these false cancellation pages, it actually says it has been cancelled. I cannot find any price structure on the website - they seem to increase their subscription every year by a massive amount until you finally cancel. And then you do not even get an email confirmation of the cancellation (so I do not know whether they will try again next year).

Academia.edu hat die Kosten für die Premium Membership von 99€ im Jahr 2022 auf 158,87€ (2023), auf 213,01€ (2024) und auf 320,11€ (2025) erhöht. Das ist grotesk!

Diese Firma missbraucht den edlen Namen der Akademie, der uns von Platon überkommen ist, um einen Abonnementsfalle aufzubauen: Trotz rechtzeitiger Kündigung buchen sie unverfroren den Jahresbetrag von 120 € an, also Finger weg!