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Re:Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers by arjunb on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @10:50PM (#307816)
yeah, i think they were grandfathered in. very cool ideas, i hope they do well. their UI seems a bit overcomplicated, though.

www.scilink.com is the only other player i know of sorta in this space (and labmeeting, as mentioned). anything better out there?

Re:Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers by Alex3917 on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @11:00PM (#307823)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_databases_and_search_e...

Of the search engines listed, I think Scopus and Web of Science both compete in the area of linking papers together by citations, but I don't really use either.