New to ResearchRabbit? Here's what the words you'll see actually mean. 🐰 Click any linked term to read its full guide.
Add
Your Seeds shape the results you get. Add Seeds by keyword lookup, DOI, upload or from your library.
Seed: a paper you add to your search. ResearchRabbit uses your Seeds to find related research.
Lookup search: find Seeds using keywords, just like a normal web search.
Identifier lookup: find Seeds using identifiers like DOIs.
File upload: bring in papers exported from your reference manager as a BibTeX or RIS file.
Recently Found: papers you've come across while exploring, kept in your library so you can use them later.
Grow
Review… Seed… Grow… Repeat! Expand your search endlessly by choosing results to become Seeds.
Grow: finds papers connected to your Seeds and adds them to your map.
Base map: the main map for your search, built from your Seeds.
Show more: adds more recommended papers to your map.
Refs: the papers your Seeds cite, useful for finding foundational work.
Cites: the papers that cite your Seeds, useful for seeing where the field is heading.
Similar: papers that often appear in the same reference lists as this one.
Co-citations: two papers are co-cited when a later paper cites them both. Papers that are often cited together are likely to be closely related.
Influential papers: papers that are central in your citation network, based on how many citations they have and how well connected those citing papers are.
Rabbit-hole: a side exploration from one paper that keeps your base map where you left it.
Merge: adds papers from a Rabbit-hole back into your base map as Seeds.
Search Journey: your whole search, including your base map and every Rabbit-hole. It saves automatically.
Auto-grow: when it’s on, your map grows each time you add a Seed. Switch it on or off in Journey Home, under Edit.
Auto-save: saves every Seed in a search to a collection you choose, automatically. Set it up in Journey Home, under Edit.
Analyze
Find trends among the entire network of potential results. Use advanced filters to hone in on topics you're interested in.
Analyze: a chart of every paper in your citation network, stacked by publication year.
Suggested Keywords: themes ResearchRabbit spots across your network. Click one to focus on that area.
Combined Filters: shows the papers that match all your filters together, highlighted in dark blue.
Explore matching articles (RR+): opens the papers that match your filters as a Rabbit-hole.
Projects and collections
Project: a separate workspace for a piece of research, with its own collections and searches. Free accounts have one project; with ResearchRabbit+ you can create as many as you need.
Collection: a folder of saved papers, for example by topic or chapter.
Reading List: papers you've marked to read later.
Autosave: saves every Seed to your library automatically.
Zotero Sync: connects your Zotero collections to ResearchRabbit so they stay in step (RR+).
Paper details
Incomplete data: a paper we couldn't match to our database, so it shows without its details. You can add them yourself with Edit Fields from the ⋮ menu.
No connections: we haven't found papers linked to that Seed yet, often because it's very new or not in our database.
Signals: badges such as Caution or Warning that flag potential concerns about a paper before you rely on it (RR+).
Alerts: emails when new papers connected to your research are published (RR+).
Personal Digest: a monthly email of new article recommendations, based on the papers you've been exploring.
Research terms you'll see in ResearchRabbit
DOI: a Digital Object Identifier, the permanent code given to most academic papers, for example 10.1000/xyz123. Paste one into Identifier lookup to find that paper.
Reference: a paper listed in another paper's bibliography. A paper's references are the work it builds on.
Citation: when a later paper refers to an earlier one. A paper's citations are the newer work that builds on it.
Citation count: how many times a paper has been cited. On your map, papers with more citations sit higher up.
Abstract: the short summary at the start of a paper. If a paper has no abstract in ResearchRabbit, you can add one yourself.
Open access: papers that anyone can read for free, without a subscription. You can filter for them in Analyze.
SJR quartile: a journal ranking from SCImago Journal Rank. Q1 journals are the top 25% in their field, Q4 the bottom 25%. You can filter by it in Analyze.
H-index: a measure of research impact: an h-index of 10 means 10 papers that have each been cited at least 10 times. You can filter by it in Analyze.
Retraction: a paper that has been withdrawn after publication, for example because of serious errors. Analyze and Signals can flag retracted papers.
Reference manager: a tool for storing and citing papers, such as Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote or Paperpile.
BibTeX, RIS and CSV: file formats for lists of references. Use them to move papers between ResearchRabbit and your reference manager.