Reference Management Tools

The journey of academia is a grand quest for knowledge, more specifically an adventure to find the right information through credible sources, and that’s where scholarly sources…

Amy Anderson, a brilliant young researcher, had a burning passion for her work in quantum physics. After months of meticulously unraveling the mysteries of subatomic particles, she…

I pulled my collar up, my hat down, and secured my glasses when I realized that most of the literature I downloaded is now saved on my reference manager and is easily accessible to…

Researcher 1: “It’s flooding articles every time I switch on my laptop!” Researcher 2: “Why don’t you categorize your downloaded data?” Researcher 1: “I have. But the amount…

Research is undoubtedly one of the most painstaking and thorough processes. Irrespective of your discipline, stage of work and career, research can be an arduous and time-consuming…

A digital library serves as an online archive of information and can be one of the most useful tools for the researchers. One such tool was CiteSeer that was launched long back but…

“Publish or perish” is a well-known saying within the scientific community. One metric used to evaluate  author’s work is the number of articles they publish; in order to stay…

RefWorks, founded in 2001, provides web-based research management service for corporate, academic, and government organizations. Currently, RefWorks is used by over 900…

The word metrics means “measurement.” In the academic publishing industry, we measure the impact of published research based on various metrics. For example, we look at how many…

It is a well-known fact in scholarly communication that there is a specific journal format for in-text citations and bibliography. Editing a citation style can be quite tedious and…

There many tools to help researchers organize and conduct experiments. Many of these involve citing other’s research and their results. To help find research done by others, we…

All scientists know that to get published, they must have novel data. Therefore, when a researcher designs experiments and writes manuscripts, information and use of previous…