Years ago, as a final year undergraduate doing my undergraduate thesis, my supervisor at the time, introduced me to this popular way of summarizing related papers. You would create a table listing relevant and related papers in each row, with columns representing common characteristics of the paper for comparison. …

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon describes a cognitive bias where learning a new word tends to make one notice the word being used more. It might be the same with new ideas and concepts. Since I started to learn about open citations, I start seeing them everwhere. For example I recently learnt about…

Tools like Google Scholar, Zotero/Mendeley are now well known research tools. But with the rise of open access papers , open data and machine learning techniques, new tools are starting to emerge ….. …

I’ve recently come across an idea known as inversion. We generally think in this way, “What do we do to reach goal X ?” …

I wrote about a dozen new tools of interest if you do academic research in July, however the March of progress never stands still so I am back to talk about a couple of new tools that have launched, or are in closed beta as at time of writing that…

Lens is in my book one of the most interesting Scholarly discovery/ citation index tools to have emerged in 2018. …

Where I speculate about how the concepts of skill caps and performance caps and the views that librarians implictly hold on them in these two dimensions, affect how they engage with them. I recently started playing Hearthstones a digital collectable card game and like most games in this genre, certain…

I have become quite a fan of the free Lens.org since last year , writing pieces like - 7 reasons why you should try Lens.org that talked about the features in Lens that make it worth a try. Since then there has been quite a few major updates including the…

Exciting things are afoot in the world of academia and research workflow. There has been a resurgence in browser extensions in the past few years, which looks to me like the custom toolbar invasion all over again of the mid 2000s. …

TL;DR — This articles shows you a reliable search strategy that you can use in Lens.org to find meta-analysis, systematic reviews, review articles of topics you are interested in regardless of your discipline to help kick start your research. I also do a comparison of this search strategy in Lens.org…

It’s a new year, and here are more research tools to keep your eye out on. Most of the items are the list are either brand new, or have interesting new features to look out for. Prior versions — July 2019, Dec 2018, July 2018 1. Semantic Scholar is enhanced with Microsoft academic graph data and now covers more than just Computer Science and Life Sciences. JISC CORE has done the same with MAG, Crossref, Pubmed.

TL;DR — This article shows you a reliable search strategy that you can use in Lens.org to find meta-analysis, systematic reviews, review articles of topics you are interested in regardless of your discipline to help kick start your research. I covered the rationale for doing this with Lens.org …

Authors: Aaron Tay (SMU Libraries, Singapore Management University), Bianca Kramer (Utrecht University Library), Ludo Waltman (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University) The value of open and interoperable metadata of scientific articles is increasingly being recognized, as demonstrated by the work of organizations such as Crossref, DataCite, and OpenCitations…

Starting your research in a totally new area and unsure where to start? …

Chinese translated version available here In terms of cross disciplinary citation indexes that are used for discovery, everyone knows of the two incumbants — Web of Science and Scopus(2004). …

It’s 2020 and we are settling down into and getting used to life where COVID is the norm. What new research tools have emerged that are worth checking out? Most of the items are the list are either brand new, or have interesting new features to look out for. Prior…

Update Aug 2021 : Since I wrote this, ResearchRabbit has gone public, see my review . ResearchRabbit occupies roughly the same space as Litmaps and is good enough in my opinion to be another one of my favourites to be worth trying out. Update Aug 2022 — Some of these…

What is Research Rabbit? ResearchRabbit has been a tool that has been in beta for a while. Until recently, access to it was limited via an invite system, but this changed last week and anyone can now try it. But what is it? ResearchRabbit is in the class of products and services that I…