Academic Research Tools Organized by Category

I recently reached a milestone in my life. After many years of thinking about it, I finally took the steps towards earning an educational doctorate degree. People sharing all about how they have used various tools for their research has been invaluable for me, as I am just starting this journey.

So I thought I would share what I have found to be helpful in my own work thus far.

Academia Tools

Academia

Academia is a social network for researchers to share papers, track their research impact, and follow academics in their field. Researchers use it to boost the visibility of their publications and monitor citation metrics.

AnswerThis.io

AnswerThis.io is a tool that helps researchers ask and answer questions, find information fast, and generate summaries from academic texts, aiding in literature reviews.

Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is an AI tool that delivers highly relevant academic search results using natural language processing. Researchers rely on it to find papers beyond keyword searches as it understands the meaning of research concepts and identifies influential papers in a field.

MagicSchool AI

MagicSchool AI assists researchers in analyzing academic literature by identifying research gaps, summarizing findings, and suggesting research directions.

Connected Papers

Connected Papers visually maps academic papers using citations, helping researchers find prior works, understand research landscapes, and spot seminal papers.

Anara

Anara organizes research findings, extracts information, and links related concepts. It is especially useful in interdisciplinary research to identify connections between fields.

ChatPDF

ChatPDF allows researchers to query PDF documents using natural language and get extracts or summaries, saving time from scanning lengthy papers.

CoPilot

CoPilot is an AI coding assistant aiding researchers with data analysis and computational tasks, suggesting code completions and explaining algorithms.

Poe

Poe is a platform offering various AI models for research assistance. Academics use it to brainstorm, refine writing, and view research questions through different AI perspectives.

Perplexity

Perplexity helps researchers synthesize knowledge across sources, useful for reviews and quickly understanding academic topics with cited sources.

IvySCI

IvySCI is an AI tool for analyzing scientific papers and is particularly helpful for systematic reviews and meta-analyses by identifying methodologies and patterns.

Social Media and Networking

Wakelet

Wakelet is a platform where academics curate and share resources like articles and videos for teaching, conferences, or collaboration with colleagues.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn allows academics to network with other researchers, share publications, announce research opportunities, and engage with the academic community.

Content Creation and Curation

Substack

Substack is used by academics to create newsletters to share research findings and ideas with a wider audience, helping build a following in their niche.

Canva

Canva is a graphic design tool used to create visual abstracts, posters, slides, and infographics for effective communication of research findings.

Project Management and Collaboration

Figma

Figma is a tool for creating design diagrams and visual models, enabling team members to collaborate in real-time on visual aspects of projects.

Miro

Miro is an online whiteboard for brainstorming, mind mapping, and planning research with distributed teams who need visual collaboration on projects.

Notion

Notion is an all-in-one workspace for note-taking, project management, and team collaboration, used to organize projects, track progress, and manage research databases.

Reference Management

Zotero

Zotero is software for collecting and organizing research sources, creating citations, and bibliographies in different academic styles with word processor integration.

MyBib

MyBib is a citation and reference management tool for creating accurate citations and bibliographies, ensuring consistency in formatting across papers.