Imagine being able to listen to research papers on the go, just like you would with your favorite music on Spotify. Thanks to R Discovery, this is no longer a distant dream but a reality. With rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), R Discovery is paving the way with creative research reading solutions, allowing researchers to listen to paper abstracts. Not only does this enable seamless multitasking at work, allowing you to keep up with the latest research. In this article, we’ll discuss audio papers and other innovative solutions that are changing how researchers engage with their work and making research more accessible than ever before.
Importance of reading research papers
Researchers need to read extensively and stay updated with all the latest research published in their field of study. This is essential to understand the existing body of knowledge in their field, which enables them to build on previous work and identify gaps or areas for further investigation. Familiarity with existing literature prevents researchers from duplicating efforts by unknowingly replicating studies that have been conducted before. They can also attach literature reviews with their research paper submissions and grant applications to make these more comprehensive. Researchers can use these scholarly references to validate their hypotheses, theories, or findings, and add credibility to their work. However, with over published every year1 and more than 50% of researchers time being wasted2 in shortlisting the right papers to read, the task becomes more difficult. This is further aggravated by the challenge of understanding, assessing, and assimilating this knowledge to use it for their own research.
Researchers struggle with multiple tasks and heavy workloads
Researchers are involved in a plethora of activities, ranging from administration and teaching to their own research work. Each of these critical activities comes with its own challenges and time constraints. Amid this workload, managing time for thorough literature search and research reading becomes challenging; researchers often end up sacrificing their personal time and commitments to manage everything they’re expected to do. This can affect productivity and mental well-being and become an area of concern. This is exactly where AI tools such as For example, busy academics can just listen to research papers on R Discovery while driving or cooking at home.
And it’s not just these, R Discovery has other capabilities designed to help researchers reduce the time and effort spent in finding reliable research papers. R recommends the latest and most relevant papers based on your interests, translates papers so you can read in your own language, and even quickly summarizes papers to allow for quick understanding of the key points. With these innovative features, researchers are able to better utilize their time in assessing and reading relevant research papers that can elevate their work rather than spending time on activities that a machine can perform faster and better.
Academics can multitask and do more with audio papers
More often than not researchers are rushed for time, chasing tight deadlines and juggling multiple responsibilities both professionally and personally. Many make sacrifices to accommodate critical tasks, but this eventually affects researchers’ mental well-being that then reduces their ability to keep up. This vicious cycle is definitely not sustainable. Here, R Discovery fits into the life of the researcher like a missing piece of puzzle.
R Discovery simplifies the literature search and reading process by summarizing the key highlights to help researchers quickly assess scholarly articles with the option to listen to paper abstracts. Researchers can now multitask and do more by choosing to listen to research in the background as they continue with other work, instead of being limited to just reading text. Whether you are working out, attending social engagements, commuting, or just looking to make the most of your breaks, you can plug in and listen to research papers and move closer to having a healthy work-life balance. R Discovery also helps researchers with English as a second language comprehend research much faster, allowing them to listen to paper abstracts or translate and read research in their native language. Combine these valuable features to accelerate research reading, enhance comprehension, and boost productivity levels across the board.
R Discovery enables a seamless audio experience
With R Discovery, researchers can now:
- Create their own playlists of audio papers and listen to them according to their schedules.
- Choose to change the audio speed to suit their preferred dialect and level of understanding. For non-native English speakers, it may be helpful to listen to research at 0.8x times the speed of normal audio and focus on every word for better comprehension.
- Move back and forth in the audio paper playlist, choosing to listen to research papers again or skip irrelevant papers. The best part is that you can do this even as you browse other papers on the app, as the audio player can be minimized to a bottom bar on the screen.
R Discovery aims to ensure the best user experience for you, which is why we’ve packaged audio papers, translation capabilities, and much more into a single app, giving you the freedom to choose what and how you discover and consume research.
The future for R Discovery: Expanded offerings
While machines cannot match human intelligence in creating new facts and conducting new research, they can empower researchers to use their time and energy efficiently allowing them to achieve the best output using available resources. R Discovery aims to expand its feature suite; from allowing scholars to listen to paper abstracts and create a playlist of shortlisted papers to listening to research papers in full. This will go a long way in helping researchers multitask better, do more focused work, and eventually expedite their literature reading to levels that were not imagined before. Stay tuned to know more about these upcoming capabilities on the R Discovery app. In the meantime, if you haven’t explored our audio papers yet, it’s time to get first-hand experience. Install this top-rated app for researchers for free now.
References:
- Number of Academic Papers Published Per Year. Wordsrated website. Available at https://wordsrated.com/number-of-academic-papers-published-per-year/
- Trust in Research. Research Survey by Elsevier and Sense About Science, June 2019. Available at https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/908435/Trust_evidence_report_summary_Final.pdf
R Discovery is a literature search and research reading app that uses your interests to instantly create personalized reading feeds. Researchers can stay updated on the latest, most relevant content from its continually expanding library of 115M+ research articles sourced from trusted aggregators like CrossRef, Unpaywall, PubMed, PubMed Central, Open Alex as well as prestigious publishing houses like Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, IOP, Taylor & Francis, NEJM, BMJ, Karger, SAGE, Emerald Publishing and more. The top-rated app in its space, R Discovery’s carefully curated features give you the power to choose what, where, and how you read research.
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