Academic Research Tools

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  1. Google Scholar icon
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    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and...

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  2. Research icon
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    The Research app is designed to streamline your workflow, offering a minimalist yet powerful platform for collecting, organizing, and analyzing research materials.

    • FreemiumProprietary
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  3. Academia.edu icon
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    is a social networking website for academics. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. It was launched in September08, with 31 million registered and over 8 million uploaded texts.

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  4. Wispar icon
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    Wispar is a user-friendly and privacy-friendly Android/iOS app that seamlessly searches scientific journals and articles using the Crossref and OpenAlex API. Stay updated on your preferred journals by following them and receive new article abstracts in your main feed.

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  5. Sourcely icon
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    AI-powered tool helping students find reliable sources for essays by offering a user-friendly interface, source summaries, and direct source access.

    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Online
    Academic Citation Finding Tool with AI
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  6. RefSeek icon
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    RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

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  7. PubMed.gov icon
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    PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

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  8. JSTOR icon
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    JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Online
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  9. AMiner icon
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    ArnetMiner (AMiner) is designed to search and perform data mining operations against academic publications on the Internet, using social network analysis to identify connections between researchers, conferences, and publications.

    • FreeProprietary
    • Online
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  10. Scopus icon
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    Elsevier’s Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields.

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  11. We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors.

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  12. AnswerThis icon
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    Academic tool offering AI-generated literature reviews with line-by-line citations, summaries from over 200 million papers, and user-uploaded document analysis.

    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Online
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  13. BioSeek Mobile - Next Generation Search For Life Sciences. Fast. Efficient. Free. We process at one go multi-component searches that are normally quite time consuming. We strive to deliver the clearest representations of massive amounts of data.

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  14. Afforai icon
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    Afforai is the AI-powered reference manager for modern researchers, helping researchers manage, annotate, cite papers and conduct literature reviews with AI reliably. Afforai was built to assist every kind of researcher, whether you are a student, professor, or researcher of 50-years.

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  15. Academig icon
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    With Academig, It's easy to build a professional academic website using a step-by-step process geared specifically to academics. Bring your personal website or research lab website to life today, make everyone in your lab proud of you, and update it easily over time.

    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Online
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