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🧠 Helpful resources I've used throughout my PhD

Resources for PhD Students

Helpful resources that I found and used throughout my PhD

Work in progress

Literature Review

  • Connected Papers: Explore academic papers in a visual graph.
  • Research Rabbit: Similar to Connected Papers allowing you to visualise existing literature in a visual graph.
  • Litmaps: Again, similar to Connected Papers and Research Rabbit, visualize the citation network of academic papers over time
  • Semantic Scholar: An AI-powered research tool for scientific literature (similar to Google Scholar).
  • Unpaywall: An open database of 50,299,264 free scholarly articles.

Reference Managers

  • Zotero: A free and open-source reference management software to collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.
  • Mendeley: A reference manager software used to manage and share research papers.

Publication

  • ArXiv: A free distribution service and an open-access archive for articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
  • Open Science Framework (OSF): OSF is an open source software project that facilitates open collaboration in science research.
  • ORCID: An "Open Researcher and Contributor ID" which is a persistent digital identifier that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. You can connect your iD with your professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more. You can use your iD to share your information with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your contributions.
  • Web of Science: Web of Science is used to track, evaluate, and compare scientific research.
  • Journal Suggester (Taylor & Francis): The suggester uses artificial intelligence to recommend journals based on the abstract of your paper.
  • Journal Author Name Suggester (JANE): Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or do you need to suggest reviewers for a particular paper? JANE will compare your paper to millions of papers in PubMed to find the best matching journals, authors or articles.
  • CRediT Author Statement: CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to the published work.
  • Scirev: Review scientific journals and find out how long their peer review process and find an efficient journal to publish your work in.

Free E-Books

Learning R

R Packages

Data Importing

  • Haven: Haven enables R to read and write various data formats used by other statistical packages (.sas, .sav, .dta, etc.).

Modelling

  • easystats: collection of R packages, which aims to provide a unifying and consistent framework to "tame, discipline, and harness the scary R statistics and their pesky models".

Plotting

  • ggplot2: Make beautiful plots in R.

    • ggstatsplot: An extension of ggplot2 package for creating graphics with details from statistical tests included in the information-rich plots themselves.
    • ggeasy: Easy implementations for many of the theme() arguments in ggplot2.

  • cols4all: cols4all is an R package for selecting color palettes for both people with normal color vision and color vision deficiency.

Productivity

  • Notion: Notion is an all in one productivity and note-taking web application.
  • Obsidian: Obsidian is the private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think.

Online Resources