Introducing “Topics”, filter by Open Access and more improvements of your Researcher feeds
We know how important Feeds are for personalising the content that you see and follow on Researcher.
Over the past few months, we gathered lots of feedback and completely revamped how we do Feeds on our iOS and Android app:
- Introducing Topics
- Exact Match and Phrase Match
- Feed Suggestions
- Filter by Open Access
- Exclude
- Topics
- Authors
- Keywords
- Subjects
- Publications
Thank you for all your suggestions and we hope the latest version helps you track super relevant and useful research. To apply these new features, you can edit your existing feeds or create new ones.
Here’s a complete guide of what’s changed:
Introducing Topics
Apart from keywords and authors, you can now follow Topics. For example, you can follow the topic “Genomics” or “Social Policy” in your Feed, and you’ll see papers about these topics, without them necessarily mentioning the specific words “Genomics” or “Social Policy”.
You can also include Topics in your Boolean operators. For example you can add COVID-19 as a keyword AND Social Policy as a Topic.
Exact Match and Phrase Match
After receiving your feedback we introduced Exact Match and Phrase Match. You will see the options when setting up a keyword feed. Here’s how it works:
- If you enter “CAKE FIGHT” and don’t select either Exact Match or Phrase Match, Researcher app will look for the words “CAKE” and “FIGHT” independently anywhere in the paper title or abstract, so you might end up with abstracts containing “FIGHT CAKE” or “I am here to FIGHT for CAKE”.
- With Exact Match, your results will contain the exact word or phrase that you have entered. In this example, it will be “CAKE FIGHT”
- With Phrase Match, the app will look for the phrase “CAKE FIGHT” in that order, but stemming is allowed so you will also get results like “CAKES FIGHT” or “CAKE FIGHTING”.
Feed Suggestions.
Simply start typing your keyword or topic when creating a feed and you will see a list of suggestions.
Filter your feed by Open Access content
The Open Access filter is back! This time, you can apply it to your feeds. Simply turn the Open Access toggle on before confirming your feed. Soon we will introduce the Open Access filter to your Home feed too.
Exclude content from your feed
You can personalise your feed even further by excluding keywords, topics, subjects, authors or publications. For example, if you are following VIRUSES, as a Topic, but you don’t want to read papers about COVID-19, or you want to exclude any VIRUSES papers in the Zoology Subject, you can apply those exclusions in your feed.
We hope these improvements are useful and let us know what you think by leaving a comment or tagging us on social media @ResearcherApp.
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