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r/academia

academia

An online community for discussing issues related to academia, faculty life, research, and institutional structures. This is NOT the place to ask questions about your homework, your particular school or professors, or to get admission advice! Survey posts must be approved by mods in advance, must include contact/IRB info, and must be specific to academia.

Community Stats

Subscribers
106k
Content rating
SFW
Created
2009-04-19
Posts per day
5/day
Comments per day
110/day
Discussion style
Comment-heavy
Top post
1,100 upvotes
Top 100 median
160 upvotes
Competition
Low competition

r/academia is a SFW subreddit with 106 thousand subscribers, created in 2009. Posts average about 5 per day with 110 comments per day, making it a comment-heavy community. Top posts this year scored up to 1.1K upvotes, with a typical top-100 post earning 161. It's a low-competition community — the 100th-ranked top post of the past year is from 249 days ago. Browse 5 closely related communities below to find similar subreddits.

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