Over the past three years, R Discovery has emerged as the most loved AI literature search and research reading platform worldwide. Boasting of over 3 million users and a host of innovative features, R Discovery has transformed how academics discover and read research, by empowering them to keep up with the latest, most relevant research by providing a personalized reading experience based on their topics of interest.
In this case study, we delve into how R Discovery’s tailored recommendations are revolutionizing research reading habits for scholars in Japan, which ranks among the top 5 subscriber countries for R Discovery Prime. Japanese researchers are the leading users of R Discovery’s translation and native language audio features, which allows scholars from country’s top universities to read more high-impact research from the world’s top academic publishers.
What is R Discovery?
A solution by Cactus Communications, R Discovery combines over two decades of STM experience with cutting-edge AI capabilities to automate literature search for busy academics. Available for free on web and as a mobile app, R Discovery helps academics navigate the maze of published literature and find the most relevant research to read and cite by providing personalized reading feeds.
R Discovery’s powerful recommendations engine uses your topics of interest to offer tailored reading recommendations from its extensive database of over 250 million research articles, including more than 150 million peer –reviewed papers and 40 million open access articles. Academics also benefit from intuitive features like research paper translation, multilingual and full text audio streaming, dedicated publisher channels, and science-backed answer to your top queries, with unmatched best-in-class unmatched research notifications. You can let our AI generate your feed, search for literature, or browse curated research feeds for top papers, open access papers, pre-prints, conference papers and patents for more targeted reading. These offerings ensure academics have the power to choose what, how, and where to read the research needed to accelerate academic innovation and excellence.
The Impact: Researchers in Japan are Harnessing the Power of R Discovery
The ability to easily discover, access, read, organize, and share research on R Discovery has been especially appreciated by researchers in Japan. In a little over a year, more than 93,000 academics in Japan have used R Discovery’s mobile app and web platform to quickly identify and read high-impact research from leading journals and publishers. This simplified access to world-class research has made R Discovery a trusted partner for researchers in Japan, acting as the engine that drives transformative intellectual advancements.
This trust is reflected in the 3x jump in time spent on the R Discovery app by researchers in Japan in the past year, with positive feedback for 93% of the research articles recommended by the platform. From struggling to find the right research to read and cite, Japanese researchers are now leveraging R Discovery’s unique advantage – the option to translate and read papers in Japanese. It’s interesting to see that Japan ranks No. 1 in usage of our research translation feature and No. 2 in the usage of multilingual language audio, both of which help enhance their reading and comprehension speeds.
The R Discovery Advantage: Enabling Access to the Best Research
Researchers in Japan are maximizing the benefits of R Discovery’s intuitive feature, which allows scholars to use institutional access to read full-text journal articles behind paywalls. It’s exciting to see that R Discovery has users from all top 10 Japanese universities as per the 2023 Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings. By further streamlining access to high-impact peer-reviewed research, R Discovery is helping nurture academic excellence in major Japanese institutions like, University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Osaka University, Tohoku University, Nagoya University, Kyushu University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama City University, Nagasaki University, University of Tsukuba, Hiroshima University, Waseda University and Shinsu University.
R Discovery’s growing base of Japanese students and researchers are most interested in reading high-impact research from the world’s leading journals and publishers. These include journals such as Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE, Journal of Clinical Oncology among others, as well as top publishers including Elsevier, Wiley, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and SAGE.
R Discovery Prime is Helping Researchers Level Up
This growing interest and love from researchers in Japan have made it one of the top 5 countries in terms of R Discovery Prime subscriptions. With unlimited access to audio and translation on mobile and web, auto sync to reference managers such as Zotero and Mendeley, research collaboration, and working on multiple projects, they are taking their literature search and reading journey to the next level. In the past three months alone, researchers in Japan have doubled the use of audio streaming to listen to the latest, most relevant research.
Celebrating the Love R Discovery Receives from Japanese Researchers
As more Japanese students and researchers join our growing global user community, R Discovery is being showered with words of praise. One of our Japanese researchers, Dr. Sukitohoru, MPH, PhD | Epidemiology Expert, shared a glowing review on social media, which reads “The research paper discovery app R Discovery is highly recommended for people who want to get into the habit of reading research papers, and I check it out every morning just like I would a newspaper.”
This positive feedback is echoed by our researcher audience in Japan, who have rated the R Discovery app as excellent on both Android (4.8/5) and iOS (4.7/5) devices, making it the top-rated app in its space. Receiving such positive responses and witnessing real stories of how R Discovery has transformed researchers’ lives warms our hearts and strengthens our resolve to continue delivering the best experience for our academic users worldwide.
When it comes to accelerating research discovery, building a daily reading habit, and being inspired to achieve excellence, it doesn’t get better than R Discovery for students and researchers in Japan. The platform also offers major benefits to reputed global publishers, helping them reach a wider audience, improve the readership of journal articles, and increase their impact in the world of research. If you haven’t explored the transformative power of R Discovery yet, do it now. Download the free app or explore on web – click here to get started with R Discovery now!
R Discovery is a literature search and research reading platform that accelerates your research discovery journey by keeping you updated on the latest, most relevant scholarly content. With 250M+ research articles sourced from trusted aggregators like CrossRef, Unpaywall, PubMed, PubMed Central, Open Alex and top publishing houses like Springer Nature, JAMA, IOP, Taylor & Francis, NEJM, BMJ, Karger, SAGE, Emerald Publishing and more, R Discovery puts a world of research at your fingertips.
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