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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

Feb 4 • 22 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

An updated list of 60 apps for academic writing and research:

[Please like and repost if you bookmark this list.]

Finding Research Gaps

• Research Kick Start
researchkick[.]com/start
Pricing: $9/m, $99/year

Intergrating AI with Academic Databases

• Research Kick Chat
researchkick[.]com/chat
Pricing: $30/m

AI-Powered Search Engines for Researchers

• Scite Assistant
scite[.]ai/assistant
Pricing: $20/m, $120/year

• Consensus
consensus[.]app
Pricing: $11.99/m. Free plan with limited features.

• Semantic Scholar
semanticscholar[.]org
Pricing: Free

• Scinapse
scinapse[.]io
Pricing: $39/m. Free plan with limited features.

• Lumina
lumina-chat[.]com
Pricing: $20/m. Free plan with limited features.

• Evidence Hunt
evidencehunt[.]com (for biomedical sciences only)
Pricing: €120/year. Free plan with limited features.

• System Pro
about.system[.]com/product/system-pro (for biomedical sciences only)
Pricing: $12/m, $99/year

AI-Powered Search Engines for Researchers (cont.)

• The Literature
the-literature[.]com (for biomedical sciences only)
Pricing: Free

• Search Smart
searchsmart[.]org/ (helps you find relevant academic databases)
Pricing: Free

• OpenRead
openread[.]academy
Pricing: $5/m. Free plan with limited features.

• Sourcely
sourcely[.]net
Pricing: $9/m. Free plan with limited features.

• Undermind
undermind[.]ai
Pricing: $20/m. Free plan with limited features.

• OpenScholar
openscholar.allen[.]ai
Pricing: Free

• Storm
storm.genie.stanford[.]edu
Pricing: Free

For Literature Review and Discovery (visual search with graphs)

• Research Rabbit
researchrabbitapp[.]ai
Pricing: Free

• Litmaps
litmaps[.]com
Pricing: $12.50/m, $120/year. Free plan with limited features

• Connected Papers
connectedpapers[.]com
Pricing: $5/m, $36/year. Free plan with 5 graphs.

• Inciteful
inciteful[.]xyz
Pricing: Free

• Dimensions
dimensions[.]ai
Pricing: Free

For Literature Review and Discovery

• SciSpace
typeset[.]io
Pricing: $20/m. Free plan limited features.

• Elicit
elicit[.]com
Pricing: $12/m, $120/year. Free plan with limited features.

• R Discovery
discovery.researcher[.]life
Pricing: $12/m, $72/year

• Keenious
keenious[.]com
Pricing: €120/year. Free plan with limited features.

AI-Powered Reading Assistants

• Scholarcy
scholarcy[.]com
Pricing: $9.99/m, $99/year. Free plan with limited features

• SciSpace Copilot
typeset[.]io
Pricing: $20/m. Free plan limited features.

• JSTOR AI Research Tool
jstor[.]org
Limited availability, may depend on your institutional subscription

For Chatting with PDFs

• NotebookLM
notebooklm[.]google
Pricing: Free.

• ChatPDF
chatpdf[.]com
Pricing: $12.99/m. Free plan with limited features.

• AskYourPDF
askyourpdf[.]com
Pricing: $144.99/year. Free plan with limited features.

• Humata humata[.]ai
Pricing: $1.99/m (with .edu email), $9.99/month. Free plan with limited features

• SciSummary
scisummary[.]com
Pricing: $4.99/m

AI-Powered Writing Assistants

• Jenni
jenni[.]ai
Pricing: $20/m

• Yomu
yomu[.]ai
Pricing: $17/m, $7 pay-as-you-go

• Unriddle
unriddle[.]ai
Pricing: $18/m

Generative AI Apps:

• ChatGPT
chatgpt[.]com
Pricing: $20/m for Plus. Free GPT-4o mini.

• Claude
claude[.]ai
Pricing: $20/m for Claude 3 Opus. Free Claude 3 Sonnet.

• Google Gemini
gemini[.]google[.]com
Pricing: $20/m for Gemini Advanced. Free Gemini Flash.

• Microsoft Copilot
copilot[.]microsoft[.]com
Pricing: $20/m for Copilot +. Free Copilot.

• Perplexity
perplexity[.]ai
Pricing: $20/m. Free plan with limited features.

• Pi
pi[.]ai
Pricing: Free

• Deep Seek
chat.deepseek[.]com
Pricing: Free

• Qwen
chat.qwenlm[.]ai
Pricing: Free

For copyediting and proofreading

• Paperpal
paperpal[.]com
Pricing: $119/year. Free plan with limited features.

For Smart Citations

• Scite
scite[.]ai
Pricing: $20/m, $120/year

For Finding Common Themes Across Papers

• Lateral
lateral[.]io
Pricing: €14.99/m, €120/year. Free plan with limited features.

For Mind Mapping and Visual Notetaking (Not AI-powered)

• ClioVis
cliovis[.]com
Pricing: $6.99/m

For Thematic Analysis

• My RA
myraresearch[.]com
Pricing: $5/analysis. Free plan with limited features.

Mock Peer Review

• Paper Wizard
paper-wizard[.]com
Pricing: $6/mock review

For Audio Notes (converts voice notes into prose)

• AudioPen
audiopen[.]ai
Pricing: $159 for 2 years. Free plan with limited features.

For Data Analysis

• Julius
julius[.]ai
Pricing: Basic plan €18.60/m

For Making Presentations

• Gamma
gamma[.]app
Pricing: $96/year. Free plan with limited features.

• Decktopus
decktopus[.]com
Pricing: $14.99/m. Free plan with limited features.

For Turning Text into Graphs and Charts

• Napkin AI
napkin[.]ai
Pricing: Free (as of now).

• Map This
map-this[.]com
Pricing: $50/year. Free plan with limited features.

Reference Managers (Not AI-powered)

• Zotero
zotero[.]org
Pricing: Free. Extra storage $60/year for 6GBs

• Mendeley
mendeley[.]com
Pricing: Free

• EndNote
endnote[.]com
Pricing: $115.95/year for students

• PaperPile
paperpile[.]com
Pricing: $36/year

Want to learn how to use 20 of these apps to supercharge your academic writing?

I have a detailed tutorial for you.

5,000+ academics including those at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale are using it.

You can get it here:
mushtaqbilalphd.thrivecart.com/ai

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

Feb 4

A list of 60 apps for academic writing and research:

[Repost if you find this list useful.]

Finding Research Gaps

• Research Kick Start
researchkick[.]com/start
Pricing: $9/month, $99/year

Intergrating AI with Academic Databases

• Research Kick Chat
researchkick[.]com/chat
Pricing: $30/m

AI-Powered Search Engines for Researchers

• Scite Assistant
scite[.]ai/assistant
Pricing: $20/month, $120/year

• Consensus
consensus[.]app
Pricing: $11.99/month. Free plan with limited features.

• Semantic Scholar
semanticscholar[.]org
Pricing: Free

• Scinapse
scinapse[.]io
Pricing: $39/month. Free plan with limited features.

• Lumina
lumina-chat[.]com
Pricing: $20/month. Free plan with limited features.

• Evidence Hunt
evidencehunt[.]com (for biomedical sciences only)
Pricing: €120/year. Free plan with limited features.

• System Pro
about.system[.]com/product/system-pro (for biomedical sciences only)
Pricing: $12/month, $99/year

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

Feb 3

Just got access to ChatGPT's Deep Research function and tried it with a long prompt👇

The prompt asks ChatGPT to collect data from a specific database, analyze it, and write a report. Also mentions a website that shouldn't be used.

Took a while but the results are very impressive🤯

The first time you run a prompt like this, Deep Research asks you for certain clarifications.

I answered its questions and then it got to work.

It looked up 57 sources before it started compiling its answer.

Looking up relevant sources took it around 10 minutes. But compiling took it around an hour. It's a bit slow at the moment but that's expected. It will surely become more efficient.

The results are very impressive.

For starters, there are little to no hallucinations. This alone is a remarkable advancement.

It was able to look up that are easily available like the number of convictions.

But it couldn't go within the database to look up desired stats like the number of immigrants from a particular country. For that it relied on other sources and Wikipedia.

This will also improve in the days to come.

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

Feb 2

How to organize and summarize research papers with Zotero and Scholarcy:

You can learn this workflow in 15 minutes.

1. Open your Zotero desktop app and click on "File" and select "New Collection."

Choose a name for your collection. Keep the collection open.

2. If you haven't already, you'd need to install the Zotero Connector.

Go to Chrome web store and look for "Zotero Connector."

Add it to your Chrome and then pin it.

The Connector is available for Edge, Firefox, and Safari.

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

Jan 31

ChatGPT just rolled out updated custom instructions.

This makes it very easy to customize ChatGPT for academic work.

And also to get rid of fake citaitons to papers that don't exist.

Here's how to customize ChatGPT (template included):

1. Open ChatGPT and click on your avatar in the top-right corner.

Select "Customize ChatGPT" from the drop-down menu. Then enable custom instructions for new chats.

You will see four questions.

2. In the field, "What should ChatGPT call you?" enter your name.

In the field, "What do you do?" write a bit about your work.

Here's a template you can use:

I am an academic researcher. My primary field of research is [...] with a focus on [...]. I have also published research on [...]. In addition, I do [...]. I have also taught course on [...].

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

Jan 26

Trump is threatening Denmark over Greenland.

I lived in the US 🇺🇸 for several years and now I live in Denmark 🇩🇰

Here's a comparison of the two countries (based on my experiences):

1. Free Health

🇺🇸You or your employer have to pay for health insurance. The US is the only country in the developed world without universal healthcare. More than 100 million Americans are in medical debt.

🇩🇰Denmark has universal healthcare. Anyone living in Denmark — citizen or alien — is issued with a yellow-colored health card with the name of their primary care doctor. You can see your doctor at no charge.

If your doctor refers you to a specialist and they have a long waitlist, you can see a private doctor. In that case, the municipality (kommune) will pay for your treatment.

Dental, chiropractic, and prescriptions are also subsidized.

2. Dental Care for Children

🇺🇸You have to pay for your children's dental care and treatment.

🇩🇰Children under 18 receive free dental care. If your child's dentist recommends braces, they can get them for free. You may have to wait for a few months or a year though.

You can see a private dentist too, if you want to.

Even private dental treatments in Denmark are more affordable than in the US.

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

Jan 25

China's Deep Seek is as good as ChatGPT o1.

Plus, it's open source and free to use.

Here are eight ways you can use Deep Seek for academic purposes:

1. Brainstorming Ideas

Ask a couple of "warm up" questions.

Do you know about X or Y. Then ask how X can be used in a specific case.

Since it's connected to the internet, it will also give you relevant links.

2. Outline a Research Project

Start by asking:
Do you know about X or Y?
How can I understand X from a Z theoretical perspective.

After a few questions, tell Deep Seek you want to write a paper on that topic. Then ask for an outline.

This way you'll get a very good outline.