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Digital Tools

In this current list you will find digital tools for research, administration and teaching! Filtering by features is possible with the search function. The list is updated regularly.

Name Category Description / Features
Google Scholar Research and discovery
  • Freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
  • Search and Access: Searches across many disciplines and sources, including articles, theses, books, conference papers, and patents.
  • Citation Analysis: Allows users to see who is citing their publications and track citations over time.
  • Profiles: Researchers can create profiles to showcase their publications and track their citation metrics.
  • Library: Users can save articles to their personal library, organize them by topic, and access them later.
  • Alerts: Users can set up alerts to get updates on new research to their interests.
Semantic Scholar Research and discovery
  • AI-Powered Search and Discovery: Uses machine learning to extract meaning and identify connections within papers, providing relevant results and insights quickly.
  • Research Dashboard: When signed in, users can access a personalized dashboard that includes recommended papers from research feeds and new papers from alerts.
  • Library Management: Users can store, organize, and export papers and citations. It also allows the creation of public folders for collaboration.
  • Influential Citations: Highlights citations that have a significant impact on subsequent research.
  • AI-Powered Summaries: Provides summaries for papers, making it easier to quickly grasp the main objectives and results.
scite.ai Research and discovery
  • Advanced platform designed to provide context for how research papers are cited.
  • Smart Citations: These show not only the number of times a paper has been cited but also the context in which the citation occurs. For instance, it indicates whether subsequent papers support, contrast, or mention the cited paper. This helps researchers understand the impact and relevance of a paper beyond simple citation counts.
  • Citation Graphs: These visual representations show the network of citations, making it easier to see how papers are interconnected. It helps in identifying influential papers and understanding the landscape of a research topic.
  • Article Insights: scite.ai offers detailed analytics on citation trends, highlighting influential citations and providing metrics that matter to researchers.
  • Research Dashboards: Personalized dashboards help users track their own papers, see who is citing their work, and discover relevant research tailored to their interest.
Connected Papers Research and discovery
  • Visual tool designed to help researchers discover and explore related research papers through a unique, intuitive interface.
  • Graph-Based Visualization: Instead of a list of search results, Connected Papers displays a graph of papers related to a starting paper. The connections are based on co-citation and bibliographic coupling, allowing researchers to see how papers are interrelated.
  • Exploration Interface: The tool is particularly useful for literature reviews as it allows users to explore papers in a non-linear fashion, quickly identifying central and peripheral papers relevant to their research.
  • Core and Peripheral Papers: It distinguishes between core papers (those closely related to the starting paper) and peripheral papers (those less directly related), aiding in a more efficient literature review process.