Imagine being able to listen to research papers on the go, just like you would with your favorite music on Spotify. Thanks to R Discovery, this is no longer a distant dream but a reality. With rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), R Discovery is paving the way with creative research reading solutions, allowing researchers to listen to entire research papers and their derivatives for better comprehension. Not only does this enable seamless multitasking at work, but it also allows you to keep up with the latest research. In this article, we’ll discuss innovative solutions, such as listening to audio papers that are making research more accessible than ever before and changing how researchers engage with their work.
Importance of reading research papers
Researchers need to read extensively and stay updated with all the latest research published in their field of study. This is essential to understand the existing body of knowledge in their field, which enables them to build on previous work and identify gaps or areas for further investigation. Familiarity with existing literature prevents researchers from duplicating efforts by unknowingly replicating studies that have been conducted before. They can also attach literature reviews with their research paper submissions and grant applications to make these more comprehensive. Researchers can use these scholarly references to validate their hypotheses, theories, or findings and add credibility to their work. However, with over five million papers published every year¹ and more than 50% of researchers’ time being wasted in shortlisting the right papers to read,² two the task of finding and reading the right literature becomes even more difficult. This is further aggravated by the challenge of understanding, assessing, and assimilating this knowledge to use it for their research.
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Researchers struggle with multiple tasks and heavy workloads
Researchers are involved in a plethora of activities, ranging from administration and teaching to their research work. Each of these critical activities comes with its own challenges and time constraints. Amid this workload, managing time for thorough literature search and research reading becomes challenging; researchers often end up sacrificing their personal time and commitments to manage everything they’re expected to do. This can affect productivity and mental well-being and become an area of concern. This is precisely where AI tools such as R Discovery can come to the rescue. For example, busy academics can listen to research papers on R Discovery while driving, cooking at home, or walking their dogs.
And it’s not just this; R Discovery has a host of other capabilities designed to help researchers reduce the time and effort spent finding reliable research papers. R Discovery recommends the latest and most relevant papers based on your interests, translates papers so you can read in your own language, summarizes papers to allow for a quick understanding of the key points, and provides research paper notifications. Hence, you never miss out on important work. You can also benefit from the carefully curated reading feeds or follow dedicated publisher channels for more focused reading. With these innovative features, researchers are able to better utilize their time in assessing and reading relevant research papers that can elevate their work rather than spending time on activities that a machine can perform faster and better.
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Academics can multitask and do more with audio papers
More often than not, researchers are rushed for time, chasing tight deadlines and juggling multiple responsibilities both professionally and personally. Many make sacrifices to accommodate critical tasks, but this eventually affects researchers’ mental well-being, which then reduces their ability to keep up. This vicious cycle is definitely not sustainable. Here, R Discovery fits into the life of the researcher like a missing piece of the puzzle.
R Discovery simplifies the literature search and reading process by summarizing a paper’s key highlights to help researchers quickly assess scholarly articles with the option to listen to the summary or the entire paper verbatim on the go, speeding up the literature review process. Researchers can now multitask and do more by choosing to listen to research in the background as they continue with other work instead of being limited to just reading text. Whether you are working out, attending social engagements, commuting, or just looking to make the most of your breaks, you can plug in and listen to research papers and move closer to having a healthy work-life balance. R Discovery also helps researchers with English as a second language comprehend research much faster by enabling them to listen to research papers in their own language. Researchers can choose to translate and read research or listen to papers in their native language. R Discovery also allows you to combine these features to accelerate research reading, enhance comprehension, and boost productivity levels across the board.
R Discovery enables a seamless audio experience
With R Discovery, academics and researchers can now:
- Upload any research paper and listen to its entire text verbatim, as well as the section-wise summary of all sections in that paper.
- Upload any English paper and translate it into non-English language for reading and listening in their own preferred languages.
- Listen to open-access full-text papers on R Discovery without uploading any files.
- Create their own playlists of audio papers and listen to them according to their schedules.
- Choose to change the audio speed to suit their preferred dialect and level of understanding. For non-native English speakers, it may be helpful to listen to research at 0.8x the speed of normal audio and focus on every word for better comprehension.
- Move back and forth in the audio paper playlist, choosing to listen to research papers again or skip irrelevant papers. The best part is that you can do this even as you browse other papers on the app, as the audio player can be minimized to the bottom bar on the screen.
- Upload papers on the website and listen to the app while commuting because the user account is synced on all platforms.
R Discovery aims to ensure the best user experience for you, which is why we’ve packaged audio papers, translation capabilities, and much more into a single app, giving you the freedom to choose what and how you discover and consume research.
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The future for R Discovery: Expanded offerings
While machines cannot match human intelligence in creating new facts and conducting new research, they can empower researchers to use their time and energy efficiently, allowing them to achieve the best output using available resources. R Discovery has expanded its feature suite from allowing scholars to listen to research papers and their summaries to translating papers to non-English language text and audio. This will go a long way in helping researchers multitask better, do more focused work, and eventually expedite their literature reading to levels that were not imagined before. Stay tuned to learn more about upcoming capabilities on the R Discovery app. In the meantime, if you haven’t explored our audio papers yet, it’s time to get first-hand experience. Install this top-rated app for researchers for free now, or head over to our website https://discovery.researcher.life.
References:
- Number of Academic Papers Published Per Year. Wordsrated website. Available at https://wordsrated.com/number-of-academic-papers-published-per-year/
- Trust in Research. Research Survey by Elsevier and Sense About Science, June 2019. Available at https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/908435/Trust_evidence_report_summary_Final.pdf
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