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Wed Apr 24 2024

Major Updates to scite Assistant: A Fresh New Look and More

Published by sciteOther

It's been over a year since we first launched scite Assistant, and we've been hard at work making improvements based on the valuable feedback from our users. We recently unveiled a brand new look for scite Assistant along with several enhancements to improve your experience.

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Wed Jan 24 2024

Using scite Assistant in the classroom: Locating measures in the behavioral sciences

Published by sciteOther

As a psychology professor, I regularly teach research methods courses. Over a two-course sequence, I teach my students various approaches to empirical psychological research. This culminates in a semester-long project in which students formulate a hypothesis, design a study, collect and analyze data, and communicate the results.

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Mon Jan 08 2024

A brief overview of Shepard’s Citations, Bibliometrics, and Smart Citations

Published by sciteOther

Bibliometrics is a field of study that involves the quantitative analysis of scholarly publications and their citations to evaluate various aspects of research, such as impact, productivity, and collaboration. The history of bibliometrics can be traced back to the pioneering work of Eugene Garfield, who introduced the first citation index for sciences in 1953 (Masic, 2016).

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Mon Nov 27 2023

On Joining Research Solutions

Published by sciteNews

We’re excited to enter a new phase of our journey at scite by coming together with [Research Solutions](https://www.researchsolutions.com/). The motivation behind this decision was our desire to further our mission of introducing the next generation of citations and better serve our users, publishers, and the scholarly ecosystem for the long term.

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Wed Mar 22 2023

Using scite to speed up literature reviews and critical analysis 🚀

Published by sciteTutorial

Literature reviews and critical analyses take time. In order to write high quality research you need to engage with the literature, read the references being cited, read the citations to the paper and make sure you understand the field as a whole. Collecting and reading all relevant references and citations takes a long time. scite helps you **spending less time on research and writing** while simultaneously **boosting the quality of your work** by presenting what is said about a paper right away.

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Mon Feb 27 2023

Colabra and scite Partner on the Development of Citations Block

Published by sciteNews

Brooklyn, NY — February 23, 2023 — scite, an award-winning tool that helps researchers discover and understand research findings more efficiently through Smart Citations, has partnered with Colabra, provider of a modern GxP-compliant Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) and project management tool, to enhance the citation experience on the Colabra platform.

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Thu Feb 23 2023

How might scite impact early career researchers?

Published by sciteOther

One question that we sometimes get is how scite might impact early career researchers (ECRs). For example, many metrics (e.g., the h-index) have a built-in bias against ECRs, as those in a given field for longer periods have more time to accumulate more citations, and in turn increase their score.

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Thu Feb 16 2023

scite's coverage of the scholarly literature

Published by sciteOther

One question that often comes up relates to coverage: that is, how many articles are indexed in scite, and how many do we have citations from? This question is sometimes posed as a comparison to other services such as Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed.

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Mon Jan 16 2023

Using scite to find active research topics

Published by sciteTutorial

One of my favorite pastimes is using scite to find active areas of research - topics that invite lively discussion, or hypotheses that are highly contested. This can be accomplished by searching for a topic and filtering the results to only show articles that have a relatively high number of both supporting and contrasting citations.

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Sat Dec 31 2022

What does science say about New Year's resolutions?

Published by sciteOther

Is the new year time to make a new you? Let’s use scite to see what science says about New Year's resolutions.

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Fri Dec 23 2022

What does science say about the holidays?

Published by sciteOther

As the holiday season is now upon us, let’s have a little fun and use scite’s new “Ask a Question” feature to find out what the scientific literature says about this time of year.

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Thu Dec 08 2022

What does the research say about bullshit?

Published by sciteOther

As a researcher and really just as a human nowdays, we’re surrounded by a lot of claims, conjectures, opinions, and really just bullshit. As a psychologist, this got me thinking… What does the research say about bullshit and bullshitting. So, using [Ask A Question](https://scite.ai/search?mode=question-answering), I asked:

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Wed Nov 23 2022

SPIE and scite Partner on the development of Smart Citations

Published by sciteNews

scite has partnered with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, to enhance the research experience on the SPIE Digital Library.

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Mon Nov 21 2022

A Global Database of Citation Context and Coverage: Our Coverage in Turkey

Published by sciteNews

Learn how scite makes research more inclusive and comprehensive by including Turkish content in its database.

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Wed Nov 16 2022

Ask a Question, Get Answers Directly from Research Article

Published by sciteNewsNew feature

Today, we're excited to introduce the capability for scite users to ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles.

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Wed Nov 16 2022

How does ask a question work?

Published by sciteResearch

Ask a question helps you ask simple, natural questions and get answers extracted from more than 32 million full texts (closed and open access). How does it work?

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Tue Nov 15 2022

scite Recruits Rogier van Erkel as Chief Revenue Officer

Published by sciteNews

Rogier brings significant experience leading sales in academia and corporate markets.

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Wed Nov 09 2022

Igor Osipov joins scite as VP of Global Institutional Markets

Published by sciteNews

scite grows its team with Igor Osipov leading engagements in global institutional markets.

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Wed Oct 19 2022

A new, open system for the automated detection of retractions and other editorial notices in the scholarly ecosystem

Published by sciteNews

See how we're making editorial notices, including retractions, more transparent for everyone.

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Wed Sep 21 2022

Lighting up the Scientific Article: How Citation Statements Can Turn Key Topics in Articles into Rich Sources of Information

Published by sciteNews

Learn how our Citation Statements can help readers get a qualitative understanding of any topic.

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