Researcher: Discover & Discuss

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About this app

NEVER MISS IMPORTANT RESEARCH

Researcher is where you discover and discuss the latest scientific, scholarly and academic research.

The only tool you need to stay up to date. With keyword and author feeds, notifications, trending papers, bookmarks, institutional access and syncing with Mendeley or Zotero, staying on top of the latest scholarly literature has never been easier.

DISCOVER

Keep up-to-date with scientific and academic content from over 20,000 sources, including:
Peer-reviewed journals
Preprints
Scientific blogs
Universities news and blogs
Leading life sciences and technology companies
Podcasts

DISCUSS WITH RESEARCHER LIVE
Hear directly from scientists and connect with peers via Researcher Live: built-in Live events that bring breakthrough research directly to you.

Listen to, ask questions and discuss trending topics and papers directly with the researchers behind them.

FREE TO USE
Researcher is free to download and always will be. Get started in a few simple steps and create your own personalised feeds.

DISCOVER WHAT'S NEW BEFORE ANYONE ELSE
No more email alerts, no more RSS feeds. Access to industry research and paper abstracts from 20,000 content sources across 10 different subject areas delivered directly to you in a social media style feed. Be the first to discover relevant content from all the top STEM, Social Science and Humanities publications - you’ll never miss essential research again.

JOIN A FAST-GROWING COMMUNITY
Join the 2.1 million users from around the world, who already use Researcher to get new, relevant scholarly content every day.

CREATE FEEDS FOR KEYWORDS OR AUTHORS
Personalise your app. Set up feeds to show paper abstracts including your chosen keywords and authors so you can easily discover what matters to you.

BOOKMARK PAPERS FOR LATER
Discover research at your own pace. Bookmark papers to read later from any mobile device or from your laptop by going to www.researcher-app.com.

LINK YOUR ACCOUNT WITH MENDELEY OR ZOTERO
Send your papers to your chosen reference manager. We support Mendeley and Zotero.

TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS AND NEVER MISS IMPORTANT RESEARCH
All you need to do is turn on notifications to get updates on your content preferences.
You won't have to worry about missing vital research ever again.

FIND OUT WHAT’S TRENDING
Discover what papers are gaining traction in your subject and in other research areas.

READ OPEN ACCESS CONTENT WITH EASE
We’ve integrated Unpaywall with Researcher so you can read and discover open access content that helps you move forward with your research.

LOG IN WITH YOUR UNIVERSITY CREDENTIALS
To see the full-text of papers, you can log in using your university credentials. We offer institutional login for libraries and institutions that use EZProxy.

TRANSLATE ANY ABSTRACT OR POST
By using Google Translate or Microsoft Translator you can translate paper abstracts, news and blogs into any language from within the app.

RESEARCHER’S CONTENT COVERAGE
We have more than 18,000 sources of research covering all major disciplines:
Medical & Health Sciences
Life Sciences and Biology
Chemistry & Materials Science
Engineering & Computer Science
Social Sciences & Psychology
Earth Sciences & Geography
Physics and Mathematics
Business & Management
Arts & Humanities
Economics and Finance.

In the app, you can find all the top journals and papers from Springer Nature, Hindawi, ACS , Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, RSC, BMJ, IEEE, arXiv, PubMed, PLOS, F1000, Cell, Science AAAS and more.

Disclaimer: Researcher aggregates the abstracts of recently published academic papers. The content includes a combination of open access papers, pre-prints and copyright protected articles behind a paywall. In order to access paid content, users must have valid institutional credentials or provide payment to the publisher.
Updated on
Oct 19, 2022

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.3
7.91K reviews
A Google user
March 16, 2019
Great concept. Has some weird UX quirks like having to restart a feed when youve already seen the first 10 items, the bookmark button looks like its default is bookmarked, the UI is very minimal and rough around the edges in an unfinished looking way. The papers only seem to go back 10 months? And as far as I'm aware you can't browse popular articles by keyword, which is a shame and would help filter past keyword. You can't (re)prioritize your keywords.
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A Google user
September 23, 2018
Really love the concept. I think it should allow you to easily filter by freely available articles, and those that require you to buy, like Springer or Wiley. Also, the PDFs doe arXiv articles don't load..which is certainly a hindrance. However, this does allow easy saving and bookmarking of titles for later review or search. With a few minor tweaks to the loading of docs, easy sorting/grouping by field, and such, this would be phenomenal.
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Researcher
September 26, 2018
Hi Simranjeet, Thank you very much for taking the time to review the app! We are actually going to shortly add and label open access content to the app from over 50K publishers. Also, thanks for pointing out issues with the PDF loading - I will pass this bug on to colleagues. Best wishes, JOE
Marcus Liebenthal
March 25, 2022
This is an amazing app for staying up to date on research. It's convenient how it can natively link with my university to provide access to different journals. My largest complaint is that this app doesn't offer a widget on Android. It would be a lot more convenient to have a constant feed of papers on my home screen, where I can causally see papers I'd enjoy without needing to open the app.
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Researcher
March 29, 2022
Hi Marcus, Thank you for your feedback. We are working on such a feature, we will keep you posted about the implementation once done in future. Thanks, Abigail

What's new

This update includes general improvements to enhance app performance.

Let us know what you think by leaving a review or emailing us at info@researcher-app.com