anyone here have an academia.edu account and can look up the papers to see if I'm the one they think is being written about or if it's the research veterinarian who has the same initial + last name as me?
@gaditb it's a paid account feature. I get the notifications because they already have me free account info (which used to include seeing the paper title so I would at least know)
@scearley Oh. Sorry, yeah, I only use the site to download papers -- I didn't even know there WAS paid features.
@scearley pretty sure it's all lies. My publications are extremely obscure (not being modest) but they always tell me I'm being cited heavily.
@scearley yes, what's up?
@scearley spooky bullshit academia.edu creepware?
@scearley or do you mean paid account, because... no.
@DenubisX yes I mean a paid account to see if a certain recently written paper is from a veterinary or bioscience writer.
@scearley oh. Sorry, nope.
@scearley Do you have a saved search + alert on your name in google scholar?
@DenubisX no I hadn't thought of that. The trouble is there is a veterinary research person with the same initial and last name as me. If academia hadn't stopped listing the author of these referring papers I could look to see if it's me or the other person.
@scearley yep. While you're likely going to have spurious hits from google scholar because of the name confusion, it'll be enough to see your own cites without the creepy bullshit of academia.edu)
@scearley
They emailed me again today trying to get me to upgrade. I have a seriously hard time believing that 110 people have mentioned me
@mlemweb I get "three papers have mentioned you" which makes the alerts possible because they're infrequent enough esp since who knows if someone tags my 20+ year old philosophy papers, or someone mentions me these days regarding computer generated literature.
@scearley
I think it's all a big scam. Facebook sells their data secretly & everyone freaks out. Academia.edu openly sells their data to desperate academics who need validation.
@scearley
And yet on Google Scholar only my thesis & my published article show up
@mlemweb my thesis doesn't show on google scholar which is odd because I know the FBI knows all about it.
@scearley
That's odd, it usually loops in to proquest
@scearley i'm interested in helping with this.
@jacobcammack do you have the paid account?
@jacobcammack @acg thank you very much you're very kind to help.
In this specific instance I was able to track down what was happening using google scholar. However, if (when) this happens again, I would like to be able to see what is happening.
@scearley
http://bugmenot.com/view/academia.edu ?
Or use a temp email address from one of those sites?