As a researcher, you have to keep up with research reading in your own field and other related areas of interest. But this is easier said than done. Millions of papers are published every year, and staying on top of it is a near impossible task. Wouldn’t life be much easier if the most relevant research, based on your interests, is recommended to you?
Now with Researcher.Life Essentials Pack, you can stay updated with personalized research reading recommendations, and save time and effort spent in searching for relevant research. All you need to do is sign up on Researcher.Life and access this for FREE!
The Literature Recommender, powered by R Discovery, helps you find the latest and most relevant research from over 100 million scholarly articles covering more than 9.5 million topics. This AI-powered tool combs through our growing library of global research articles to create a personalized feed of research papers based on your topics of interest, all in a matter of minutes. R Discovery is also the largest repository of open access journals, giving you access to over 39 million open access paper and more than 2 million preprints all in one place.
Adding your topics of interest
Building your research reading feed on Researcher.Life is easy, you can start by sharing your topics of interest. Type in your interest area or choose from the list of 9.5 million topics available. Click on Start reading once you have confirmed your topics.
Within a matter of minutes, the AI tool scans over 100 million papers to identify research content that is relevant to your topics of interest, and returns a feed of research reading recommendations.
Refining your feed for relevant articles
There are a few actions that help us optimize your research reading feed so that it becomes more relevant for you.
- Like articles that seem relevant to you, to see more such similar articles in your feed.
- Save interesting articles that you want to revisit later so you can refer to it in detail.
- Hide irrelevant articles to avoid them showing up in your research reading feed.
- Update your topics of interest to further refine recommendations. This can be done at any point by clicking the option on the top right-hand side of your feed.
Finding articles of interest from your feed
Each article on the Literature Recommender comes with a tag that explains why it has been recommended – Just Published, Relevant for your topics, Relevant for a specific topic, etc. These tags help you identify open access articles too as you scan through your research reading feed.
Click on any article of interest to see a Quick View of its abstract, which will help you decide if reading the full-text version is worth your time. You can choose to read the article immediately or save it for later from the Quick View screen itself.
Discover relevant articles from related fields
Scroll further down your research reading feed to get topic recommendations that are related to your interest area; these are topics that you may not have discovered otherwise. Clicking on these cards will allow you to explore research that is relevant for both the primary topic you chose, and the secondary topic that is recommended. You can choose to add these topics to your feed if you feel they are relevant, or save these articles to your Library if you want to refer back later.
Get research reading recommendations similar to the articles you have liked or saved, in the ‘Inspired by your recent activity’ section. You can also find research papers on topics related to articles you may have bookmarked (this will show up in the Library section) or read (these articles show up in the History section).
The Literature Recommender by R Discovery ensures you stay updated with the latest research at your fingertips. Available both on Web and mobile (we recommend the mobile app, which comes with smart alerts on latest publications and new recommendations), it offers users a seamless research reading experience! Use the Literature Recommender for free online with Researcher.Life Essentials Pack or download the free R Discovery app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
