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ahmadove t1_j2ho35e wrote

Gave it a whirl. It appears indeed powerful. Google sucks for literature search because most literature is behind paywalls, so you essentially search abstracts. Pubmed sucks because well... It's a got a bit of a primitive search algorithm. This actually works holy shit. I'll introduce it to my lab mates, thank you!

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DaBIGmeow888 t1_j2i98v9 wrote

Pubmed has Mesh terms so many use it for systemic literature reviews.

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PhilShackleford t1_j2iiy6f wrote

Sci-hub.se

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ahmadove t1_j2ikox2 wrote

Sci-hub for a literature search? It's gold for someone without a good institutional access or for some rare to find articles, but you can only search DOIs, no?

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novawind t1_j2irrit wrote

Google scholar -> abstract -> DOI on sci-hub if promising

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ahmadove t1_j2it3go wrote

Well yes. But let's say you're interested in a very particular method being used in a paper. That method is often not mentioned in abstracts or to enough detail to discern by a keyword search. Searching by anything that probes abstracts will never get you a comprehensive result. You need an engine that searches also article body. That's my whole point I'm raising.

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novawind t1_j2ivakl wrote

Then inciteful.xyz or connectedpapers.com are pretty good. They look for citations, keywords and authors to graph relevant papers from a seed of selected papers.

In my experience though, Google is pretty good at giving the few most relevant results.

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MintyMissterious t1_j2jk14r wrote

Didn't Google Scholar search in the full texts? I don't recall anymore.

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VeryKnave t1_j2k5bju wrote

I also knew this. I think Google partners with publishers so that Google can index full texts

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LocalUnionThug t1_j2lvj4d wrote

Google is fine so long as you have LibKey Nomad or equivalent installed.

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Euler9215 t1_j2j7ohs wrote

I used it for my thesis a few months back, although I had to tweak a few things. Very nice to have it generate it for latex.

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eeyore134 t1_j2jlieb wrote

I really want to start seeing these for the arts and humanities as well. I've seen like three or four science based ones now.

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Ebayednoob t1_j2imkap wrote

Very neat and creative tool. 👍

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saschaleib t1_j2imss1 wrote

Thanks for the re-post. This looks really helpful and I missed it two years ago!

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zappyzapzap t1_j2lwzym wrote

Couldn't find an option to filter by peer reviewed status. Kinda useless

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