Academic Paper Discovery

Discussions focus on tools, methods, and websites like Google Scholar, ArXiv, and citation graphs for searching, discovering, recommending, and reading research papers.

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jcfrei Mar 22, 2015 View on HN

Do you know google scholar? That's basically what it's for. Might as well be added to the list of advices: searching for the important papers with google scholar or CiteSeerX.

acollins1331 Jun 28, 2019 View on HN

You use Google to find a paper with a title that sounds like what you're looking for and then if it's on arxiv you read it.

maastaar Dec 31, 2018 View on HN

You can use Google Scholar for searching if you have specific topic in your mind. Under each paper in the search results you can find two links, they are "Cited by ..." and "Related articles", you can find more papers about the topic by using these two links. The link of Google Scholar is https://scholar.google.com/SemanticScholar is also good: <a href="https://www.semanticscho

mattkrause Dec 15, 2016 View on HN

Have you heard of Faculty Of 1000 (f1000.com)?It sorta does that. The "faculty" submit 1-2 paragraph blurbs describing papers. The blurbs often point out the strengths and weaknesses of each paper and give a brief description of how it fits into the broader literature. If you can find a couple of people on there with similar research interests, it can be a great way to get up to speed on something.

iamricks Jul 14, 2021 View on HN

Whats the best place to search for and read papers?

vivekseth Oct 13, 2020 View on HN

I would try to look for academic papers on the topic. Even if you can’t find an exact match, papers typically have a section that describes other related work. You can also scan through the citations to see if anything might be a match. If there’s some relevant paper, you’ll probably find it after searching through a few papers.When reading a paper I would just scan the abstract, conclusion, introduction, related work section (possibly in that order) to see if it’s relevant.For finding pap

weishuhn Dec 19, 2020 View on HN

Creator here. It's similar in that it uses citations to make paper recommendations. But different in that I give you access to the entire paper graph rather try to distill it down to just a few. You can even write your own queries by clicking on the "SQL" button at the bottom of each table. I kind of view it as a Connected Papers for power users.

philipkglass Nov 18, 2024 View on HN

You use Google Scholar to find papers you're interested in, then use sci-hub to actually read them.

swah Dec 4, 2014 View on HN

Ok found the answer http://michaelrbernste.in/2014/10/21/should-i-read-papers.ht...

was_a_dev May 7, 2023 View on HN

Google Scholar, Arxiv and Researchgate make a pretty robust solution for paper discovery