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AI outlines in Scholar PDF Reader: skim per-section bullets, deep read what you need
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Do you have an ever-growing pile of papers that you absolutely must read? Extended outlines to the rescue! Today, we are adding AI outlines to
Scholar PDF Reader
to help you read papers both quickly and in depth.
An AI outline is an extended table of contents for the paper. It includes a few bullets for each key section. Skim the outline for a quick overview. Click on a bullet to deep read where it gets interesting - be it methods, results, discussion, or specific details.
AI outlines are, as yet, available for selected papers in English. They are enabled when you click a PDF link in Google Scholar. For other PDFs, the regular section outline is displayed and you can click on the AI Outline icon to request one.
If you already have Scholar PDF Reader, it will be updated, sometime over the next week or so, to include AI outlines. You can also update the Reader yourself by going to the Chrome Extensions page (enter
chrome://extensions
in the address bar), enabling “Developer mode” on the top right of the page and clicking the “Update” button on the top left.
If you don’t yet have the Reader, you can install it from its
Chrome web store page
. In addition to AI outlines, Scholar PDF Reader has much else to help you read faster – one-click preview of cited articles, linked figure and table mentions, citing and related articles and light/dark modes.
Here is hoping Scholar PDF Reader helps researchers everywhere read all that is on their pending paper piles quickly and thoroughly.
Posted by: Namit Shetty, Akash Sethi, Samuel Yuan, Jonny Chang, Hanshen Wang, Alex Verstak
2024 Scholar Metrics Released
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the
2024 version of Scholar Metrics
. This release covers articles published in 2019–2023 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of July 2024
Scholar Metrics include journals from websites that follow our
inclusion guidelines
and selected conferences in Engineering & Computer Science. Publications with fewer than 100 articles in 2019-2023, or publications that received no citations over these years are not included.
You can browse publications in categories such as
Ocean & Marine Engineering
,
Drama & Theater Arts
or
Forests & Forestry
. You will see the top 20 publications ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. You also can browse the top 100 publications in several languages - for example,
Portuguese
and
Spanish
. For each publication, you can view the top papers by clicking on the h5-index.
Scholar Metrics include a large number of publications beyond those listed on the per-category and per-language pages. You can find these by typing words from the title in the search box, e.g., [
sustainability
], [
logistics
], [
salud publica
].
For more details, see the
Scholar Metrics help page
.
Posted by: Anurag Acharya
Supercharge your PDF reading: Follow references, skim outline, jump to figures
Monday, March 18, 2024
Researchers have long loved PDFs for reading papers. You can focus on absorbing the scholarship – the format is simple and clean. Researchers have also long complained about PDFs – we have heard “it takes ages to follow a reference”, “I really need to see the methods section first”, and the like.
Today, we are launching the
Google Scholar PDF Reader
to enhance your paper reading. It brings the familiar ease and seamlessness of Scholar to reading PDF papers. In-text citations are now links – with one click, you will see a preview of the cited article and often a version you can read. All of this without losing your place in the paper.
Scholar PDF Reader displays an automatically computed table of contents. Want to go first to the methods section? Click on its link in the outline. Want to drill down to a specific subsection? Expand sections to quickly find your way there.
In-text figure and table mentions are now links too. Click on a link to jump to the figure. Once you are done taking in the details, use the familiar back button in the browser to return to where you were.
And there is more!
Copy and paste citations as you read
Save citations to a reference manager to cite later
Look up citing and related articles for the paper you are reading
Pick a display theme that’s right for your eyes – light, dark, or night
Scholar PDF Reader is available as a Chrome browser extension. Install it from the
Chrome web store page
and take it for a spin.
Happy reading!
Posted by: Sam Yuan, Danni Chen, Ishana Narayanan, Janelle Wen, Hanshen Wang, Alex Verstak
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