The phrase "academic readership" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the audience or group of individuals who engage with academic texts, research, or scholarly work.
Example: "The findings of this study are particularly relevant to the academic readership interested in environmental science."
Alternatives: "scholarly audience" or "academic audience".
It will appeal to both a general and an academic readership.
"There are too many books, and people are desperate for filtering devices," said Jeffrey Kittay, editor in chief of the new Lingua Franca Book Review, a semiannual offshoot of Lingua Franca magazine that courts the same academic readership.
While Arts and Letters Daily appeals to an intellectual and academic readership, ArtsJournal covers what newspapers cover: art thefts, orchestras going under, music downloading, theater companies building new buildings and the like.
Hoffman, until recently the director of the Center for Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, clearly cannot decide whether he is writing a book for a wide audience or for an academic readership -- repeated use of "as we saw in Chapter...". leaves us feeling like his students.
He believes the audience straddles two groups – an academic readership that "regards the TLS as an authority [because it] reviews big, serious books properly" and university-educated professional people – lawyers, say, or doctors and accountants – "who are interested in being challenged, big ideas".
"One popular post explains why we don't wear white gloves to handle manuscripts, but we also try to cater for a non-academic readership.
All his books since his 1970 book of stories, Nightlines, have been quickly translated into French and he has both a widespread academic and general readership there.
Appealing to a broad academic and general readership, the volume offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.
This aids both academic and policy readerships.
To better assist their international readerships, Academic Transfer and Science's Next Wave Netherlands provide information in both Dutch and in English.
David's writing appeals to both an academic and a general readership.
