The phrase "academics called for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a demand or request made by scholars or experts in a particular field.
Example: "In light of recent events, academics called for a reevaluation of the current educational policies."
Alternatives: "scholars urged" or "experts requested".
Other leading academics called for an end to the culture of secrecy around the issue.
The 22 academics called for his release in time to accept an international health and human rights award in Washington this month.
He was suspended on March 23 after the university launched a disciplinary inquiry and students and academics called for him to be sacked.
In a review of the UK's energy policy, published on Wednesday, leading academics called for a clearer focus on energy in the government's forthcoming industrial strategy, as well as new strategies on heat and energy efficiency, progress on which has been stalled by the scrapping of the "green deal" on home improvements.
Professors Ilan Pappe and Tanya Reinhart stand out, leading a few Israeli academics in calling for support for the Palestinian academics' call for selective academic boycott.
Wolfgang Löwer, an ombudsman for the German Research Foundation, is one of the many German academics calling for a course on rules and procedures of academic scholarship.
Journalists and academics calling for equal educational opportunity for women and toleration of gays have been arrested, imprisoned and even executed.
But there has been a growing debate within Israel itself, with some human rights organizations and academics calling for an independent, nonmilitary review of the Gaza conflict.
WASHINGTON Longng before taking office as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke wrote an article with some other academics calling for the Fed to demystify its actions and pronouncements.
And a petition launched by the prominent urbanist Richard Florida and dozens of other academics calling for the finalist cities to unite in a "mutual non-aggression pact" on tax incentives has garnered more than 15,000 signatures.
The photographer's arrest triggered international protests – with rights groups, Nobel laureates and academics calling for his release – and followed a series of mass rallies this summer after two teenagers were killed by a speeding bus.
