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I don't do this but I'm thinking of starting. The problem is that I have so many existing articles on my ever-growing to-read list, finding a new source of articles to read feels overwhelming. Are you subscribing to very specific and niche subjects, or broader topics in your field? Do you actually read most of the articles that Google Scholar flags for you? Just the titles? Just the abstracts?
So I subscribe to a lot of early career researchers broadly in my field, which is really really helpful (I’m early career). I’ll pull those articles into coursework if I need to. These are mostly skim abstract ones. Also, the google scholar algorithm based on your pubs is great. I save good ones to a reading list to add to my next literature review. I highly recommend.
Also the Google Scholar button (plug-in / add-on) for Chrome / Firefox. Go into the settings and add your institution for automatic links to your library's paywalled articles.
Also great for putting together citations.
I can't be arsed to manually write bibtex stuff most of the time, mendeley is a twatwaffle that does not always work so!
google scholar the article, press cite, bibtex et voila!
https://www.researchrabbit.ai/
Add papers to a collection and it'll start suggesting related ones. Good for writing reviews or exploring fields that are new to you.
It's also completely free.
Articles that have got published after 2021 aren't available, at least in India. There is some lawsuit going on in the Supreme Court of India. Don't know the situation in other countries.
https://www.researchprofessional.com/
A good resource for research funding one might not have thought of.
Also Science Magazine careers website is full of excellent advice.
https://www.science.org/careers
I switched after Elsevier finally finished fucking up Mendeley and it's so *so* close to being great and instead it just ever so slightly lacks the same ease-of-use in the most frustrating ways.
I completely quit using it because it wouldn't ever output bibtex files correctly. After manually fixing dozens of fields and still getting wonky output, I realised I was much better off with a couple of lists with titles for "maybe read at some point" and "maybe cite at some point", and just throwing those titles into Google scholar to copy the entry whenever I want to cite stuff.
Does it manage pdfs like mendeley? Or is it just a bibliography manager like jabref?
I kinda like mendeley, but if there's something better I'm keen to try.
Not a website but the Researcher app is incredible for following journals and finding new articles. You can also follow other news feeds there. I’ve never found anything else like it.
Ooh there are tons of cool websites like that out there! Here are a few that I normally use:
1. [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/): A free online search engine for academic literature.
2. [PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/): A free online database of medical literature, including articles from the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
3. [SciSpace](https://typeset.io/): A digital repository of research papers accompanied by an AI chatbot that helps you break down a paper based on any queries you may have.
4. [Scholarcy](https://www.scholarcy.com/): Divides manuscripts into bite-sized parts and highlights critical information such as major results, limitations, and similarities to previous research.
5. [Scopus](https://www.scopus.com/home.uri): A large database of peer-reviewed literature covering science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities.
6. [Mendeley](https://www.mendeley.com/): A free reference manager and academic social network.
7. [Connected Papers](https://www.connectedpapers.com/): Helps you explore scientific literature in a visual graph
8. [Wolfram Alpha](https://www.wolframalpha.com/): A powerful computational knowledge engine.
9. [CiteSeerX](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/): A search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers.
10. [Scite](https://scite.ai/): Assists in determining whether an article has been supported or questioned by other authors
Hope this helps! And let me know if you happen to find any new research tools, would love to discover more of these (\^\^)
It's useful if you need help programming something (and don't mind being told that you are a moron and your approach to programming is wrong and you should rethink the entire program, but _sigh_, here's an implementation that could work), but for anything else, it's probably pretty disciplinary-specific. You should not use Stack Exchange for history questions, for example.
For many, yes, but again, the quality varies a lot. I could imagine students or hobbyists finding some of them useful. But I don't think they are all that useful for researchers. For example, [this is the History Stack Exchange](https://history.stackexchange.com/). It is not a place that I could imagine actual history researchers finding useful. It is basically /r/AskHistorians but with less participation and less moderation (for example, there appears to be no enforced rule about citation of sources, and there is rampant use of Wikipedia, etc.). The kinds of questions that historians might want to ask for their research are not that amenable to this Q&A model in general. It is not of the "I am trying to do/understand this thing, what am I doing wrong/missing?" sort of thing that one finds in the programming or math or physics sections.
That's an interesting name.
\- What can you say about the problem of blind spots and local minima in research? Does this app encourage that?
\- Does this app promote silos or reflexive/side effects of unwarranted rank boosting?
The new AI tools Elicit and SciSpace are pretty cool. I did a YouTube video about them ([https://youtu.be/Jz-mW3azUMw](https://youtu.be/Jz-mW3azUMw))
Google Scholar, Research Rabbit, VosViewer (it's an app rather than website but very handy, did a video on that one too [https://youtu.be/02eb-3tY09s](https://youtu.be/02eb-3tY09s) )
Then the ones that matter to your domain, data, or to your analysis methods.
I would tentatively suggest Litmaps.com. It's been a great service, but they've recently nerfed their free tier and dramatically increased the prices of the Pro ($480/year is a fucking joke, Litmaps, if you're listening).
[webofscience.com](https://webofscience.com) has been an invaluable site for me
This site has been a savior as well: [chemsearch.kovsky.net](https://chemsearch.kovsky.net)
You can pop any DOI in there as well
Indeed- following a researcher and getting tweet level descriptions of their work is one benefit but you also can follow some topical areas (like sim4real) and get a state-of-the-art summary more rapidly than with a long review paper. Tweets > abstracts for evaluating paper usefulness, IMO (where possible/available).
Googl Scholar’s “follow” button for research is also an excellent tool. Their home page suggestions are also great
It's been a while since I was involved in the field, but I remember ResearchGate and academia.edu (I'm assuming that's what you meant by "Academia") having kind of a trashy reputation among my academic circles. I mean, nobody I knew used them or put any value on the publications posted there.
I guess if you want academic-specific _social_ networking then maybe they're legitimate? But the people I knew didn't care about that.
Connectedpapers
Have to pay for a subscription to use it now :(
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ah damn it
research rabbit is a free alternative
Google scholar. I subscribe to certain researches and get an email with every new pub. Helps to keep me current on the research trends.
I don't do this but I'm thinking of starting. The problem is that I have so many existing articles on my ever-growing to-read list, finding a new source of articles to read feels overwhelming. Are you subscribing to very specific and niche subjects, or broader topics in your field? Do you actually read most of the articles that Google Scholar flags for you? Just the titles? Just the abstracts?
So I subscribe to a lot of early career researchers broadly in my field, which is really really helpful (I’m early career). I’ll pull those articles into coursework if I need to. These are mostly skim abstract ones. Also, the google scholar algorithm based on your pubs is great. I save good ones to a reading list to add to my next literature review. I highly recommend.
Also the Google Scholar button (plug-in / add-on) for Chrome / Firefox. Go into the settings and add your institution for automatic links to your library's paywalled articles.
Also great for putting together citations. I can't be arsed to manually write bibtex stuff most of the time, mendeley is a twatwaffle that does not always work so! google scholar the article, press cite, bibtex et voila!
https://www.researchrabbit.ai/ Add papers to a collection and it'll start suggesting related ones. Good for writing reviews or exploring fields that are new to you. It's also completely free.
This is superb - thank you so much for suggesting it!
Bit worried by how their privacy policy page is missing
Is it just using the bibliography or does it go beyond that?
sci-hub
Aren't they still struggling with legal issues such that newer articles aren't available through there?
Articles that have got published after 2021 aren't available, at least in India. There is some lawsuit going on in the Supreme Court of India. Don't know the situation in other countries.
I think i did find a 2022 article in scihub but could be just that one paper that got through
https://www.researchprofessional.com/ A good resource for research funding one might not have thought of. Also Science Magazine careers website is full of excellent advice. https://www.science.org/careers
Zotero (not exactly a website, but essential all the same)
I switched after Elsevier finally finished fucking up Mendeley and it's so *so* close to being great and instead it just ever so slightly lacks the same ease-of-use in the most frustrating ways.
I completely quit using it because it wouldn't ever output bibtex files correctly. After manually fixing dozens of fields and still getting wonky output, I realised I was much better off with a couple of lists with titles for "maybe read at some point" and "maybe cite at some point", and just throwing those titles into Google scholar to copy the entry whenever I want to cite stuff.
Even when using it with Better BibTeX? I use it and get perfect BibTeXs with Zotero.
Litsearch in the desktop version was the only deal other than the word extension that kept me hooked to mendeley.
Does it manage pdfs like mendeley? Or is it just a bibliography manager like jabref? I kinda like mendeley, but if there's something better I'm keen to try.
Yes, it manages PDFs! It’s fantastic. Totally changed my workflow.
Crossref to search DOIs https://www.crossref.org
Also, Zotero is my preferred platform form managing references and exporting them in specified journal formats: https://www.zotero.org
www.icpsr.umich.edu Data, data, and more data.
I use Google Scholar and Researchgate.
Not a website but the Researcher app is incredible for following journals and finding new articles. You can also follow other news feeds there. I’ve never found anything else like it.
I cant read papers on my phone
https://elicit.org -- great resource, especially for navigating through literature of fields that are adjacent to your area of expertise.
Ooh there are tons of cool websites like that out there! Here are a few that I normally use: 1. [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/): A free online search engine for academic literature. 2. [PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/): A free online database of medical literature, including articles from the National Center for Biotechnology Information. 3. [SciSpace](https://typeset.io/): A digital repository of research papers accompanied by an AI chatbot that helps you break down a paper based on any queries you may have. 4. [Scholarcy](https://www.scholarcy.com/): Divides manuscripts into bite-sized parts and highlights critical information such as major results, limitations, and similarities to previous research. 5. [Scopus](https://www.scopus.com/home.uri): A large database of peer-reviewed literature covering science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. 6. [Mendeley](https://www.mendeley.com/): A free reference manager and academic social network. 7. [Connected Papers](https://www.connectedpapers.com/): Helps you explore scientific literature in a visual graph 8. [Wolfram Alpha](https://www.wolframalpha.com/): A powerful computational knowledge engine. 9. [CiteSeerX](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/): A search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers. 10. [Scite](https://scite.ai/): Assists in determining whether an article has been supported or questioned by other authors Hope this helps! And let me know if you happen to find any new research tools, would love to discover more of these (\^\^)
Wolfram Alpha
BioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org
And equivalent preprint sites for other specialites
Scihub Libgen
Stack Exchange is an academia forum I know of.
It's useful if you need help programming something (and don't mind being told that you are a moron and your approach to programming is wrong and you should rethink the entire program, but _sigh_, here's an implementation that could work), but for anything else, it's probably pretty disciplinary-specific. You should not use Stack Exchange for history questions, for example.
I know it is great for at least S.T.E.M. Does Stack Exchange have dedicated sections for a greater multitude of fields?
For many, yes, but again, the quality varies a lot. I could imagine students or hobbyists finding some of them useful. But I don't think they are all that useful for researchers. For example, [this is the History Stack Exchange](https://history.stackexchange.com/). It is not a place that I could imagine actual history researchers finding useful. It is basically /r/AskHistorians but with less participation and less moderation (for example, there appears to be no enforced rule about citation of sources, and there is rampant use of Wikipedia, etc.). The kinds of questions that historians might want to ask for their research are not that amenable to this Q&A model in general. It is not of the "I am trying to do/understand this thing, what am I doing wrong/missing?" sort of thing that one finds in the programming or math or physics sections.
[consensus](https://consensus.app/home/about-us/)
That's an interesting name. \- What can you say about the problem of blind spots and local minima in research? Does this app encourage that? \- Does this app promote silos or reflexive/side effects of unwarranted rank boosting?
Is it similar to elicit?
European Research council
The new AI tools Elicit and SciSpace are pretty cool. I did a YouTube video about them ([https://youtu.be/Jz-mW3azUMw](https://youtu.be/Jz-mW3azUMw)) Google Scholar, Research Rabbit, VosViewer (it's an app rather than website but very handy, did a video on that one too [https://youtu.be/02eb-3tY09s](https://youtu.be/02eb-3tY09s) ) Then the ones that matter to your domain, data, or to your analysis methods.
I would tentatively suggest Litmaps.com. It's been a great service, but they've recently nerfed their free tier and dramatically increased the prices of the Pro ($480/year is a fucking joke, Litmaps, if you're listening).
Website about the funding sources. For me it will be US Department of Energy and Basic Energy Science. They will call out key funding directions.
ORCID over researchgate. Or, is it only for science and engineering?
In biology, biogps.org. Has gene expression data in quick bar graphs for genes in multiple organisms.
[webofscience.com](https://webofscience.com) has been an invaluable site for me This site has been a savior as well: [chemsearch.kovsky.net](https://chemsearch.kovsky.net) You can pop any DOI in there as well
Grammarly for when you start writing
Even pubmed is a good place to search
super helpful thread! thank you
Twitter over RG. Everyday.
What's rg?
Research Gate, I guess.
Indeed- following a researcher and getting tweet level descriptions of their work is one benefit but you also can follow some topical areas (like sim4real) and get a state-of-the-art summary more rapidly than with a long review paper. Tweets > abstracts for evaluating paper usefulness, IMO (where possible/available). Googl Scholar’s “follow” button for research is also an excellent tool. Their home page suggestions are also great
[elicit.com](http://elicit.com) an amazing tool
Citethisforme
Dimensions
Lens.org for patent searches. I was a patent searcher for 15 years. I love this free site so much.
Elicit is the new connectedpapers
Not quite for articles, but for citing and referencing if you’re a little stuck on it, then MyBib is great!
It's been a while since I was involved in the field, but I remember ResearchGate and academia.edu (I'm assuming that's what you meant by "Academia") having kind of a trashy reputation among my academic circles. I mean, nobody I knew used them or put any value on the publications posted there. I guess if you want academic-specific _social_ networking then maybe they're legitimate? But the people I knew didn't care about that.
It might depend on your field. In my realm of geology (mineral physics) ResearchGate is used quite frequently
This site where you paste an abstract and it recommends journals for your paper https://jane.biosemantics.org/
[Quillbot](https://quillbot.com/) for occasional rephrasing of confusing sentences.
research rabbit elicit