Introducing Ask R Discovery: Get Factual Answers, Validated by Scientific Research

Finding science-backed answers to your research queries is still a complex process, despite millions of academic papers published every year. A search for scientific papers on Google can often throw up unverified, conflicting results, and sifting through these to find the right information often requires time, effort, and skill. This is why R Discovery, the most loved literature search and research reading app, is proud to introduce Ask R Discovery, a one-of-a-kind AI research partner that offers you instant fact-based answers backed by its repository of over 250 million research articles. Powered by robust generative AI, this unique feature amplifies R Discovery’s goal of making science more accessible to people around the world.

Addressing Challenges in the Search for Scientific Papers

We’re seeing a growing interest in science and research from a wider audience. Students, researchers, policymakers, journalists, and science enthusiasts with the desire to know more are searching for factual answers to their queries. However, finding fact-based exact answers or searching for scientific papers can be very complicated. You need to use the right search terms, apply the correct filters, browse complex papers, check citation quality, and even then, you can’t be sure of what to believe and what to ignore.

And there’s a huge gap between how novices and experts approach the search for scientific papers. Just knowing a subject or being a ‘search nerd’ will not get you far in the search for research, you need to have both the search system expertise and domain experience to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Enter Ask R Discovery: Your Accurate Generative AI Research Partner

For those struggling to get the best out of search engines for science and research, Ask R Discovery emerges as a trusted research partner that helps you navigate the complexities of academic literature. Now, you no longer need to master the search process or be a subject-matter expert to find the right answers from science. Ask R Discovery answers your questions as fact-based summaries, with citations and links to research papers from its database of over 250 million research articles, including more than 40 million open access articles, across 32,000 journals and 9.5 million topics. This generative AI feature combines the ease of online searches with the accuracy of verified scientific research. By providing a list of articles from where the response is sourced, it allows users to delve deeper and read the full research article if they choose.

Ask R Discovery strengthens the R Discovery feature suite, which empowers users around the world to seamlessly discover, access, read, listen, organize, and share reading recommendations from the cleanest, most reliable research library with latest content from prestigious academic publishers, trusted aggregators, and reputed content houses.

With Ask R Discovery, researchers and science enthusiasts will get:

• Verified answers, every time: Access 100% factual answers validated by full text scientific articles tailored to boost your research knowledge and credibility.
• Simplified search options: One-click search for research, with authentic answers, citations, and links to the research papers referenced in the response.
• Access to a vast knowledge base: Ask simple questions and get instant insights drawn from over 250 million scholarly articles, across all major subject areas.
• Enhanced research outcomes: Save time, reduce effort, and stay ahead by using data from scientific articles to support your writing and research tasks.

Ask R Discovery is Not Just Another Gen AI Tool or Search Engine for Science

With summarized answers to your top research queries, Ask R Discovery does far more than a regular search engine for science. Not only does it give you the most relevant results, it helps you understand science better, faster while keeping you updated on a wide range of research topics. And while Ask R Discovery is powered by generative AI, the R Discovery team has taken steps to tackle the challenges usually seen in generic generative AI tools.

1. Users can type in their questions and get reliable answers from the full text of millions of research articles. Ask R Discovery does not make up data so you never have to worry about AI hallucinations or unverified information.
2. Ask R Discovery aids comprehension by extracting key points from research articles and presenting it as an easy-to-understand summary. This allows you to quickly understand complex science themes while reducing time spent searching for research.
3. You can find answers to any question, then use Ask R Discovery’s filters to fine-tune your results based on the article publication date or the document type, with options to pick from journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, or book chapters.
4. By linking the summarized answers to the scientific literature it is based on, Ask R Discovery allows users to easily refer to and check the scientific literature if they want to know more.

How to Use Ask R Discovery?

Here’s a simple step-by-step guide on how you can use Ask R Discovery to get the answers to your top queries around science.

1. Navigate to the “Ask R- Discovery” link from the top menu on the website or click on the Ask R Discovery card in your mobile app.
2. Type in your questions in simple English in the search bar to prompt the generative AI engine to find the best results from verified research papers.
3. The AI presents a fact-based response that summarizes insights from the top 5 most relevant research articles along with a list of references used to answer your query.
4. You can also use smart filters to specify article publication dates or document types to ensure you get the most relevant response to your query.

Ask R Discovery: Inspiring Words From Our Community

R Discovery’s efforts in creating Ask R Discovery as a reliable research partner for its over 2.5 million users and beyond is certainly paying off.  By providing credible answers to top user queries with relevant links from a repository of more than 250 million research articles, including over 40 million open access articles, Ask R Discovery is quickly becoming the preferred choice for academics worldwide. In just two weeks, more than 68% of users had found answers to their questions and 40% of these went on to read the scientific articles shared with the answers. These early users have some great things to say; take a look at some of the love we’ve received, underscoring the positive impact Ask R Discovery has had on the community.

We’re just getting started

Ask R Discovery is still in its beta stage, and while it works well to answer your research queries, we are committed to making it bigger and better. In the meantime, we’d love to hear from you. If you have any suggestions or even queries, please write to us at discovery@researcher.life and we’ll be sure to get back to you. Your feedback will be invaluable in helping us refine this search engine for science to ensure it fully aligns with your scholarly pursuits.

With just one, now anyone in academia and beyond can get immediate answers and updates on new developments in research and science. If you haven’t tried this yet, this is your chance. Explore Ask R Discovery on web or download the free R Discovery app from Google Play or Apple Store to always stay informed, stay inspired, and stay ahead.

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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