R Discovery - Research papers search & read

R Discovery is a complimentary AI platform available for scholars and students designed to assist in locating and reading research papers. This highly rated app for literature search and review offers recommendations for recent and pertinent research articles tailored to your interests from a vast collection of studies. Utilizing advanced AI technology and distinctive functionalities, R Discovery streamlines your literature consumption, making it more effective. We do the searching; you handle the reading. It’s that straightforward!

Daily, R Discovery incorporates over 5,000 articles through collaborations with leading publishers such as Wiley, IOP, Springer Nature, Sage, Taylor & Francis, APA, NEJM, and various academic platforms.

Most Comprehensive and Updated Research Database

To maintain credible and high-quality research, R Discovery eliminates duplicates to keep the most current versions of documents; enhances the clarity of journal names, publisher information, and author details to improve search capabilities; and removes all retracted studies and questionable content.

This free AI application provides access to:

• More than 250 million research articles (including journal articles, clinical trials, conference papers, etc.)

• Over 40 million open access articles (the largest library of OA journal articles globally)

• More than 3 million preprints from arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and additional repositories

• Over 9.5 million research topics

• More than 14 million authors

• 32,000+ academic journals

• Over 100,000 universities and institutions

• Content derived from Microsoft Academic, PubMed, PubMed Central, CrossRef, Unpaywall, OpenAlex, and others.

AI-Powered Reading Suggestions

Input your research interests to receive personalized reading suggestions featuring the latest high-caliber research, which includes patents, conferences, seminars, and open access articles.

Gen AI Search via Ask R Discovery

Leverage instant insights backed by scientific evidence with verified citations through Ask R Discovery, an excellent AI-driven search engine tailored for research needs.

Dependable Academic Search Tool

Conduct searches for research papers on R Discovery similar to how you would on Google Scholar, RefSeek, Research Gate, Academia.edu, Dimensions AI, Semantic Scholar, or utilize services provided by academic libraries.

Institutional Access to Full-Text Manuscripts

Log in using your university credentials to gain free entry to subscription-based journal articles necessary for your thesis research through available integrations.

Research Summaries

Quickly review extensive research papers within two minutes using this AI research tool, which highlights essential points and presents them in a user-friendly format.

Multilingual Audio Features

Upload entire papers or compile playlists of relevant readings and listen to audio summaries and articles in your preferred language.

Paper Translation Services

Enhance your reading efficiency with R Discovery; simply select a paper and use the translation feature to view it in any of over 30 languages.

Collaboration and Shared Reading Lists

Access curated research suggestions from peers in your discipline or expedite projects by creating joint reading lists and inviting colleagues to collaborate within this academic research tool.

Curated Feeds and Publisher Channels

Investigate specific publisher channels and tailored feeds focusing on open access articles, preprints, and standout papers. You can also establish distinct feeds for various research initiatives.

Auto Syncing with Zotero and Mendeley

Keep your reading organized by saving articles to your R Discovery library and exporting them to Mendeley or Zotero; the premium auto-sync capability further streamlines reference management.

Access Across Multiple Platforms and Notifications

Bookmark articles within the app and access them on the Web. With notifications for newly published papers, this research tool makes staying informed effortless.

Experience free research discovery or consider upgrading to R Discovery Prime to gain access to additional premium features. Join the community of over 3 million academics and transform the way you engage with literature on R Discovery. Get started today!

How R Discovery Saves 70% Time for Researchers: Better Literature Search, Smarter Research Reading

The academic publishing ecosystem expansion shows no signs of slowing down. Global research output has increased over the last decade, with over 10,000-15,000 articles being published daily [1]. This growth, while valuable, further complicates researchers’ task of being aware of recent, relevant developments and, more importantly, working to get their findings published on time.  

Recognizing that time is a critical resource in research, R Discovery offers advanced tools that simplify literature search and reading and save up to 70% time for researchers. Explore how incorporating R Discovery into your research workflow can help you reclaim the time spent on extensive literature searches.  

Table of Contents

Automated Literature Search for Smarter Research Reading 

Skip the Noise, Read More Relevant Research  

Improve Comprehension, Consume More Research  

The Relevance Gap in Traditional Research  

Organize Literature with Ease  

Reclaim 70% of research time with R Discovery! 

Automated Literature Search for Smarter Research Reading 

Researchers spend up to four hours per week searching for relevant literature. [2] This includes not just active database searching but also reading abstracts, evaluating source credibility, organizing citations, and integrating new findings into existing knowledge frameworks. Literature discovery, evaluation, and integration typically consume between 15-20% of total research time. [2]  

What’s concerning is that despite this substantial time investment, researchers consistently report anxiety about potentially missing crucial publications relevant to their work. To simplify often tedious literature search, R Discovery automates your research updates by providing personalized reading recommendations.  

Fig 1: Select topics of your interest

On R Discovery, do a one-time set-up to create personalized feeds based on your topics of interest; you can even prioritize specific topics by assigning them weightages. R Discovery’s personalized research paper recommendations tool then acts as a focused lens, ensuring you see the latest, most relevant updates while giving you control over the type of content you want to see.   

You can also manage separate feeds for different projects, allowing for simultaneous monitoring of research topic threads without switching or manually managing multiple search tabs.  

Fig 2: Get personalized recommendations based on chosen topics

For the average researcher spending four hours weekly on literature searching, this translates to reclaiming approximately 2.5-3 hours per week—over 150 hours annually.[2] 

Skip the Noise, Read More Relevant Research  

The information overload challenge is compounded by the rise of predatory publishing, characterized by misleading information, deviation from standard peer-review processes, and aggressive solicitation tactics. 

With so many journals worldwide, it’s practically impossible to find the most relevant publications and, more importantly, manually filter out predatory sources. Furthermore, obtaining full-text PDFs for in-depth study can often be a challenge. 

Fig 3: Access the largest research database 

R Discovery provides access to an extensive research database of over 250 million research papers from more than 32,000 journals, including the largest repository of 40 million open-access papers on the go. To ensure you never miss crucial updates on the domain’s progress, R Discovery also offers access to over 10 million conference papers and more than 3 million preprints.  

To further save you time in literature search, R Discovery’s machine learning algorithms automatically extract and categorize topics from research papers (picked from your topics of interest), facilitating deeper exploration. With over 9.5 million topics in our organized research repository, you can rest assured that the information you need is readily available and best suited for your research. 

Improve Comprehension, Consume More Research  

Once you’ve discovered and accessed your research literature, the next critical step is efficient knowledge consumption. To support both broad and in-depth analysis, R Discovery also offers the ability to listen to audio versions of research papers, even in your native language! 

Fig 4: Listen to research papers in your native language

Our Audio Papers feature is a favourite among R Discovery users, known for boosting research productivity by 5x. The simple truth is listening more enables you to research more and reduces screen fatigue and cognitive load – excellent support for researchers who need to conserve their focus and energy for their core work. You can quickly skim through papers and then dedicate focused reading time to the most relevant ones. This allows for rigorous, in-depth research without sacrificing efficiency. 

R Discovery’s Audio Papers can transform previously unproductive moments into valuable research time. Whether you’re between classes, commuting, or experiencing low cognitive energy before sleep, you can continue engaging with your literature. Simply upload a paper or choose from the existing database. R Discovery summarizes each section, or you can opt to hear the full paper from start to finish.  

R Discovery’s Research in Shorts delivers summaries of research papers in a quick, engaging, and easily digestible format, providing researchers with the same advantages as skimming a paper but without the associated pitfalls.   

Fig 5: Get AI-generated summaries of research papers

R Discovery also offers seamless research paper translations in 30+ languages. Simply choose a paper, select your preferred language, and receive instant, accurately translated abstracts with an audio version in your chosen language. 

The Relevance Gap in Traditional Research 

Traditional literature review methods often lead researchers to realize that half of the papers they read are irrelevant to their specific research questions. This creates a substantial burden to sift through numerous papers to identify truly applicable content. 

R Discovery employs natural language processing (NLP) and text data mining techniques to match research papers to user interests with significantly higher precision. According to user-reported feedback, more than 93% of articles recommended by R Discovery are deemed helpful for researchers’ specific projects.