Researcher: Discover & Discuss

Researcher

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About this app

NEVER MISS IMPORTANT RESEARCH

Researcher is where you discover and discuss the latest scientific, scholarly and academic research.

The only tool you need to stay up to date. With keyword and author feeds, notifications, trending papers, bookmarks, institutional access and syncing with Mendeley or Zotero, staying on top of the latest scholarly literature has never been easier.

DISCOVER

Keep up-to-date with scientific and academic content from over 20,000 sources, including:
Peer-reviewed journals
Preprints
Scientific blogs
Universities news and blogs
Leading life sciences and technology companies
Podcasts

DISCUSS WITH RESEARCHER LIVE
Hear directly from scientists and connect with peers via Researcher Live: built-in Live events that bring breakthrough research directly to you.

Listen to, ask questions and discuss trending topics and papers directly with the researchers behind them.

FREE TO USE
Researcher is free to download and always will be. Get started in a few simple steps and create your own personalised feeds.

DISCOVER WHAT'S NEW BEFORE ANYONE ELSE
No more email alerts, no more RSS feeds. Access to industry research and paper abstracts from 20,000 content sources across 10 different subject areas delivered directly to you in a social media style feed. Be the first to discover relevant content from all the top STEM, Social Science and Humanities publications - you’ll never miss essential research again.

JOIN A FAST-GROWING COMMUNITY
Join the 2.1 million users from around the world, who already use Researcher to get new, relevant scholarly content every day.

CREATE FEEDS FOR KEYWORDS OR AUTHORS
Personalise your app. Set up feeds to show paper abstracts including your chosen keywords and authors so you can easily discover what matters to you.

BOOKMARK PAPERS FOR LATER
Discover research at your own pace. Bookmark papers to read later from any mobile device or from your laptop by going to www.researcher-app.com.

LINK YOUR ACCOUNT WITH MENDELEY OR ZOTERO
Send your papers to your chosen reference manager. We support Mendeley and Zotero.

TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS AND NEVER MISS IMPORTANT RESEARCH
All you need to do is turn on notifications to get updates on your content preferences.
You won't have to worry about missing vital research ever again.

FIND OUT WHAT’S TRENDING
Discover what papers are gaining traction in your subject and in other research areas.

READ OPEN ACCESS CONTENT WITH EASE
We’ve integrated Unpaywall with Researcher so you can read and discover open access content that helps you move forward with your research.

LOG IN WITH YOUR UNIVERSITY CREDENTIALS
To see the full-text of papers, you can log in using your university credentials. We offer institutional login for libraries and institutions that use EZProxy.

TRANSLATE ANY ABSTRACT OR POST
By using Google Translate or Microsoft Translator you can translate paper abstracts, news and blogs into any language from within the app.

RESEARCHER’S CONTENT COVERAGE
We have more than 18,000 sources of research covering all major disciplines:
Medical & Health Sciences
Life Sciences and Biology
Chemistry & Materials Science
Engineering & Computer Science
Social Sciences & Psychology
Earth Sciences & Geography
Physics and Mathematics
Business & Management
Arts & Humanities
Economics and Finance.

In the app, you can find all the top journals and papers from Springer Nature, Hindawi, ACS , Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, RSC, BMJ, IEEE, arXiv, PubMed, PLOS, F1000, Cell, Science AAAS and more.

Disclaimer: Researcher aggregates the abstracts of recently published academic papers. The content includes a combination of open access papers, pre-prints and copyright protected articles behind a paywall. In order to access paid content, users must have valid institutional credentials or provide payment to the publisher.

Ratings and reviews

Great idea for an app! However. I'm having problems setting up filters. This morning I was able to setup one word filters, but the buttons on the advanced filter were inoperable. Now those fields work, but I can't save even a simple filter without the error: can't save to server, check your internet connection". There's nothing wrong with my connection, just this app.

EDIT: I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. It works now. I don't know what happened. This app is great, happy it works! Doesnt work. I couldn't get past the "Select journals" screen. I had 40 selected and pressing "Follow 40 journals" didnt advance the screen. Exited the app and tried again. Still no luck. I can't get past the journal selection screen.

Thank you for incorporating institutional access a while back. One area of improvement would be to allow users to set notification frequencies, ideally once a week. I just had to turn all of them off after having 20+ notifications at once. I made this suggestion last year, and I would love to see it implemented. Otherwise, this is a great, super useful app.

What's new

This update includes general improvements to enhance app performance.

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