Research workflows, tools, and
My Ever-tuning system

Mindset & Values ─ System ─ Methods (Workflows) ─ Tools ─ Impact & Power

～ LaoZi, Taoism

（道、法、術、器、勢 ─ 道家老子）

Mindset and values I support

Integrity （誠信；有幾分證據，說幾分話）

Sincere & Be kind （真誠，善良是種選擇）

Inquiring mind & Self-learning ability （追根究底，自學能力）

Open knowledge (knowledge sharing) & Collaborative workflow （知識共享 & 協作）

Research Cycle and Workflows

(A) Discover and explore literature

(B) Collect and organize literature; Auto-citation

(D) Design studies and experiments

Apply for ethical approval

(E) Collect data

(F) Process and analysis data

Statistical analysis

(G) Visualize results: Plot figures, make tables

(H) Write and Cite: Journal manuscripts, proposals, project reports, etc.

Discuss with colleagues or mentors

Iterate steps (F) to (H)

(I) Submit your work and cross your fingers

(J) Update research profiles

(K) Present findings: Oral presentation, conference poster, etc.

... and start over again for a new study!

Research Tools I USE

The power of AI!

(A) Free, powerful AI-based literature discovery, recommendations, and visualization platforms

💚 Scite scite.ai
- Show how research papers have been cited
- 👍 AI research assistant!
- 👍 Show supporting, mentioning, and contrasting citation statements
💚 Elicit elicit.com
- Combine semantic similarity with precise keyword matching to find relevant papers
- Generate summaries of abstracts relevant to your question
- 👍 Show possible critiques and the citation statements!
- 👍 Allow to add more detailed information about the papers (e.g. study population, N of participants, study design, intervention details, results of the study, limitations, etc.)
- 👍 Create tasks for yourself or use user-created tasks (algorithms) shared by other students and researchers, such as rephrase, reframe research statements, brainstorm research questions, etc.
- Star, save & export your work (in .bib or .csv)
💚 Sci-hub sci-hub.se
- 👍 Against the paywall
- 👍 Reduce the hassle using the one-click Chrome extension "Sci-Hub X Now!"
SciSpace typeset.io
- 👍 Almost one-for-all platform for academics and researchers, from discovery to publishing!
- Literature Review, Copilot - Read with Al, Citation generator, Paraphraser, AI Detector!
ResearchRabbit (RR) researchrabbit.ai
- Discover and visualize relevant literature and scholars
- 👍 Create categories (folders) for different topics
- 👍 Create alerts for new papers relevant to your collections
- 👍 Import references from your reference manager account (Zotero)
- Export & share collection
- 🙄 Could be a little overwhelming compared with connectedpapers.com
ResearchGate (RG) researchgate.net
- 👍 Show mentioning in the citations
- The "Academic LinkedIn" 😎
Connected papers connectedpapers.com
- Discover and visualize connections
- Explore papers based on similarity, co-citations (prior work, derivative work), etc.
- 👍 Beautiful graph and GUI, easy-to-use

(B) Powerful reference managers

Endnote endnote.com/
- With endnote one-click chrome extension, you can automatically, reliably, and correctly extracts metadata
- Google Doc, Word add-ins
Mendeley mendeley.com
- Google Doc, Word add-ins
- Sync across the cloud (Note: Mendeley Android app has retired)
Zotero zotero.org
- Outperform its competitors with an active community and massive plug-ins
- Integrate (workaround) with Obsidian
- Google Doc, Word add-ins
Paperpile
- Google Doc, Word add-ins

(C) Powerful AI reader and summarizer: Literature reading and summarization

💚 SciSpace typeset.io
💚 SystemPro pro.system.com
- 👍 Statistics of findings!
💚 Coloop app.coloop.ai
- Very powerful qualitative analysis AI platform!
Genei genei.io (my affiliate link)
- Use powerful AI-power language model
- Subscription-based pricing model with an academic discount
  - Disclaimer: Both of us get genei credits if you enter my referral code (7A2F0EBE78)
Wordtune Read wordtune.com/read
- Summarize key points for you
- Come with a chrome extension
- Subscription-based pricing model with an academic discount

(D) Powerful personal knowledge management system (PKMS): Literature note-taking, annotation, highlighting, note-making, knowledge mapping

Heptabase
- 👍 Powerful visualization tool for knowledge management (like Mind maps + Notion)
PowerNotes
- Powerful chrome extension
- Support PDF OCR text recognition
- Frequent promotions (but with some restrictions, e.g., cannot be used within the subscription period)
Liquidtext
- Integration of evidence pieces
Obsidian
Notion
Qiqqa
- Extremely powerful; All you can ask for (A) to (D)!
- But ... service discontinued 😥

(to be continued...)

(H) Write and Cite

💚 Jenni AI
💚 Isaac Editor isaaceditor.com
💚 Linggle linggle.com
💚 Grammarly grammarly.com
Academic Phrasebank phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk
Netspeak netspeak.org
Quillbot quillbot.com
Wordtune Write app.wordtune.com/editor
Writefull writefull.com
- Useful Sentence palette (similar to the content in Academic Phrasebank)
statcheck statcheck.io