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Feb 9, 2023, 14 tweets

8 tools to help find, read and analyse research papers

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This thread will help you find answers to your questions more quickly and effectively from the most reliable sources.

elicit.org

Ask a question and get an answer in the form of a list of research papers. Each one will have a text that refers to your question + the service will generate a summary of all the articles at once

Elicit analyses data from 175 million documents

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explainpaper.com

Upload the scientific article file to the website and, while reading, highlight words or phrases to see their explanation compiled by AI

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base-search.net

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine.

Search 316,694,821 documents from 10565 content providers.

One of my favourite 'science' search engines with a huge index and a lot of advanced search filters

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wolframalpha.com

When you search for a keyword, this search engine displays a lot of tables with data, graphs and maps. If you click on the "Data" button above each block, you will get a list of scientific articles related to this data

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connectedpapers.com

Enter the DOI, article title, URL (PubMed, arXiv, Semantic Scholar) of the article and see a graph of its links to other sources (with authors, years of publication and other information)

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connectedpapers.com

Enter the DOI, article title, URL (PubMed, arXiv, Semantic Scholar) of the article and see a graph of its links to other sources (with authors, years of publication and other information)

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academictree.org

Select a section of science, enter the name of the scientist and look at his(her) connections with other scientists, who influenced him the most and who is the successor of his(her) work.

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scite.ai

Enter the article title or DOI to get a list of publications that cite it. Results can be filtered by type (book, review, article), year, author, journal and other parameters.

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article-summarizer.scholarcy.com

AI papers summarizer

Upload the file or copy the access URL to the article to get:

Key concepts
Abstract
Synopsis
Highlights
Summary
Links to download tables from paper in Excel

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trinka.ai (@thetrinkaai)

A partly free online tool to help you prepare a research paper for publication:

AI Grammar Checker (made especially for scientific papers)
Consistency
Citation checker
Plagiarism checker
Journal founder

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