Tools for Researching

As a research, learning to track papers and keeping ourselves updated is definitely necessary. Tens of papers needed to be scanned every week, so these tools and find a comfortable way to do is worth the time to figure out. For me, there are three main steps: searching, reading and recording.

This is for simply include resources I have known for searching papers related to your research area with Google scholar, save in the library, find the related papers, or to find the most cited papers from a certain conference or journal.

1. Searching

Here is the video where I learned more tricks from.

2. Reading

After finding it, I would add the paper to my Readcube, the cool thing about readcube is that it is automatically plugged into the browser, so that you can add papers to Readcube directory from either Google Scholar, or from a pdf reader. With readcube, we can edit and highlight when we are reading the papers.

The cool thing about google scholar library is that you can export the papers in one shot with the option of latex.

3. Recording

Also, when we are trying to research one area, it would be really helpful if we use a excel to track the papers we have read so far, trying to categorize them, summarize. Choices are Google Drive with Google excel or Microsoft office 365 online.