Resources and Tools
Literature Review Tools
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Unriddle.AI: An AI tool for literature reviews that simplifies reading, extracts key insights, enhances writing, and guides you through complex topics with ease.
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ScienceOpen: A free search engine for research papers with citation metrics, altmetrics, and a user-friendly design for exploring scholarly works.
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Semantic Scholar: An AI-powered platform for discovering and analyzing academic papers, offering deep insights into scholarly literature.
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SciSpace: A research tool with 270+ million papers and an AI assistant, Copilot, providing summaries, explanations, and answers to aid comprehension.
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PICO Portal: An AI tool designed to streamline systematic reviews by predicting the most relevant articles based on your criteria, reducing the number of studies you need to screen.
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Elicit: An AI research assistant that helps in literature review by finding relevant papers, summarizing findings, and extracting key information to answer specific research questions.
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Research Rabbit: A tool that allows researchers to create collections of papers and visualize the connections between them, aiding in the discovery of related work and the development of comprehensive literature reviews.
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Consensus: An AI-powered search engine that finds and summarizes research papers, helping users quickly understand the consensus in scientific literature on a given topic.
Free Courses on Research Methods, Manuscript Writing, and Publishing
Find Journer
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JANE (Journal/Article Name Estimator): A tool that helps you find the most relevant journals for your research based on article titles or abstracts.
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Clarivate Master Journal List: A comprehensive list of journals indexed by Clarivate, offering essential information for journal selection.
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Scopus Journal Comparison: Allows you to compare journals indexed in Scopus based on various metrics like impact factor and citation counts.
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Jot (Journal Targeter): A tool to help you identify the best journals for submitting your manuscript based on keywords or topics.
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Elsevier Journal Finder: Helps you find Elsevier journals that match your research topics and manuscript.
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Taylor & Francis Journal Suggester: This tool suggests journals from Taylor & Francis based on the title and abstract of your manuscript.
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Think. Check. Submit: A resource to help you evaluate the trustworthiness of journals and avoid predatory publishers.
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Wiley Journal Finder: A tool that helps you find Wiley journals by matching your manuscript with relevant journals.
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Cabell's: Provides a directory of journals and their evaluation metrics, helping you find suitable journals for your research.
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Journal Evaluation Tool: A tool for evaluating journals based on multiple performance metrics and journal reputation.
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Sage Journal Recommender: Suggests Sage journals that are a good fit for your research topic using your manuscript title and abstract.
R Package for Data analysis and Visualisation
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dplyr: A package for data manipulation, offering functions like filtering, selecting, and summarizing data. Part of the tidyverse.
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tidyr: Focuses on tidying data, such as reshaping and separating columns. Works well with other tidyverse packages.
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Tidyverse: A collection of R packages (e.g., ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, purrr) for consistent data analysis and visualization.
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gtsummary & gt: Used for creating customizable summary tables for data frames and statistical models.
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ggplot2: A powerful visualization package implementing the "grammar of graphics" to create complex plots.
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hrbrthemes: Enhances ggplot2 plots with additional themes, color palettes, and customization options.
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RColorBrewer & viridis: Provide color palettes for data visualization, ideal for maps and charts.
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Heatmaply: Creates interactive heatmaps with customization options.
Free Courses and Tutorials for R Programming
Data Science Tools
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NumPy: Foundation for scientific computing, offering support for multidimensional arrays and mathematical operations.
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Pandas: Simplifies data wrangling and analysis, providing powerful tools for handling structured data.
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Matplotlib: Used for creating static, basic data visualizations.
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Seaborn: Enhances Matplotlib with advanced statistical visualizations and attractive aesthetics.
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Plotly: Enables interactive and dynamic data visualizations.
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researchpy: data and performs statistical tests efficiently.
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Dask: Handles big data analysis with parallel computing support.
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scikit-learn: A versatile library for machine learning, offering tools for classification, regression, and clustering.
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scikit-image: Provides tools for image manipulation, especially useful in life sciences.
Free Courses and Tutorials for Data Science
Biological Illustratol Tools
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BioArt: Hosted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), BioArt provides over 2,000 science and medical visuals, including vectors, icons, and brushes, created by professional illustrators.
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Bioicon: Bioicon offers a collection of high-quality biological icons and illustrations to enhance scientific presentations and educational materials.
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BioRender: BioRender's scientific illustration software includes an activity sheet with editable lab icons, enabling users to create publication-quality figures using pre-made icons and templates.
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SciDraw: SciDraw is a platform that offers a variety of scientific drawings, including vectors of cells, animals, and laboratory equipment, contributed by the scientific community.
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Servier Medical Art (SMART): It offers over 3,000 free, high-quality medical illustrations suitable for publications and presentations. The collection encompasses various medical specialties, including anatomy, cellular biology, and general medical items.
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Reactome: Reactome is a free, open-source, curated, and peer-reviewed pathway database that provides insights into molecular processes and pathways in human biology.
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LabIcons: LabIcons offers free drawings of laboratory objects to improve knowledge communication in science and education, including clip arts of microcentrifuge tubes, plasticware, instruments, equipment, and glassware.