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In this story I will describe eight open access tools(web-based) that will help you to accelerate your research process.
For each tool you will find:
- A brief description of the tool.
- A screenshot of the tool’s interface.
- A link to the tool’s website.
- A link to the Twitter Account (if applicable).
I hope these tools greatly contribute to your research.
Enjoy them!😉
1.-CITATION GECKO TOOL
Gecko is here to help you find the most relevant papers to your research and give you a more complete sense of the research landscape.
Start from a small set of ‘seed papers’ that define an area you are interested. Gecko will search the citation network for connected papers allowing you to quickly identify important papers you may have missed.
The tool allows the user to view these highly connected papers either in a table or in the context of the network.
🔗 https://citationgecko.azurewebsites.net/
2.- INCITEFUL TOOL
The goal of Inciteful is to give the world free tools to help accelerate academic research. If that means getting up to speed on a new topic, finding the latest literature, or figuring out how two ideas are connected, they can help.
Unlike a traditional search engine, citations are the cornerstone of all of our tools. Building these tools for all academic literature has only recently been possible with the rise of open scholarly bibliographic data and the amazing work being done by the these groups.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Inciteful_xyz
3.-OPEN KNOWLEDGE MAPS
Open Knowledge Maps is the world’s largest visual search engine for scientific knowledge.
Our Goal is to revolutionize discovery of scientific knowledge. We are building a visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike. We are a charitable non-profit organization and we believe that a better way to explore and discover scientific knowledge will benefit us all.
🔗https://openknowledgemaps.org/index
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ok_maps
4.-IRIS.AI
This tool speed up your literature review!
I am a young artificial intelligence, training to become a researcher myself some day.
I’ve read millions of research papers already, and when you give me a paper I can find not only what the most important keywords are, but also what other words has been used for the same concepts in other places (contextual synonyms) and what topics the paper falls into (hypernyms). This makes it pretty easy for me to look in the Core database of 77M Open Access papers and find the ones that best matches whatever you show me. I even categorize them for you on-the-fly, so you can more easily navigate them! I work cross-disciplinary across all research, but I like harder sciences best — I just find them a lot easier to understand.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheIrisAI
5.- CARROT2
Carrot2 organizes your search results into topics. With an instant overview of what’s available, you will quickly find what you’re looking for.
User interfaces
- Web Search Clustering organizes search results from public search engines into clusters; offers treemap- and pie-chart visualizations of the clusters.
- Clustering Workbench clusters content from local files in JSON or Excel format, Solr or Elasticsearch; allows tuning of clustering parameters and exporting results as Excel or JSON.
6.- RESEARCH RABBIT TOOL
Research Rabbit is on a mission to advance knowledge by building powerful, thoughtfully-designed technologies for researchers around the world. With Research Rabbit, users can explore and visualize papers/authors, receive notifications when highly-relevant papers are published, generate increasingly relevant recommendations with usage, share and collaborate, and so much more!
Research Rabbit’s core discovery functionalities will remain free forever. Why? It’s simple. Researchers commit years of time, energy, and more to advance human knowledge. Our job is to help you discover work that is relevant, not to sell your work back to you. Being a mission-first team makes these kinds of decisions easy.
🔗https://researchrabbitapp.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RsrchRabbit
7.-CONNECTED PAPERS TOOL
Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
You can use Connected Papers to:
- -Get a visual overview of a new academic field.
- Make sure you haven’t missed an important paper.
- Create the bibliography for your thesis.
- Discover the most relevant prior and derivative works.
The free version includes:
- 5 graphs per month
- All features included
If you Log in, you will get 3 more!
🔗 https://www.connectedpapers.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectedPapers
8.- LITMAPS TOOL
Litmaps is the easiest, quickest and most accurate way to find the articles and papers you need to complete a literature review.
From a single paper, Litmaps generates a map of the most relevant articles that relate to your seed paper. The most recent articles appear on the right, the most cited articles appear at the top and the lines show the citations in-between.
Litmaps Free gives you access to our basic Discovery tools, whereas Litmaps Pro gives you the ability to search with a higher level of fidelity, allowing you to filter your search results by author, date and keyword. Litmaps Free limits your number of input articles to 20, whereas Litmaps Pro gives you unrestricted search access
Twitter: https://twitter.com/litmapsapp
Final comments
As we have reviewed, each tool has its own characteristics and scope. The choice of the tool will depend on your research needs.
😉I hope these tools help you in your research process.
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References
- Citation Gecko [Internet]. [cited 2023 May 20]. Available from: https://www.citationgecko.com/
- Using Citations to Explore Academic Literature | Inciteful.xyz [Internet]. [cited 2023 May 20]. Available from: https://inciteful.xyz/
- Maps OK. Open Knowledge Maps — A visual interface to the world’s scientific knowledge [Internet]. Open Knowledge Maps. [cited 2023 May 20]. Available from: https://openknowledgemaps.org/index
- Iris.ai — Your Science Assistant [Internet]. [cited 2023 May 20]. Available from: https://the.iris.ai/
- Carrot2 search results clustering engine [Internet]. [cited 2023 May 20]. Available from: https://search.carrot2.org/#/search/web
- Research Rabbit [Internet]. [cited 2023 May 20]. Available from: https://researchrabbitapp.com/
- Connected Papers | Find and explore academic papers [Internet]. [cited 2023 May 20]. Available from: https://www.connectedpapers.com/
- Literature Map Software for Lit Reviews & Research | Litmaps [Internet]. [cited 2023 May 20]. Available from: https://www.litmaps.com/
