Announcements, news, messages from the researchr team.
Researchr has been extended with an integrated workflow for performing systematic literature reviews, which consists of creating a bibliography, defining and executing a search strategy, defining classification schemes, and reviewing and classifying papers. See the following paper for an overview.
Eelco Visser. Performing Systematic Literature Reviews with Researchr: Tool Demonstration. Technical Report TUD-SERG-2010-010, Software Engineering Research Group, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, May 2010.
Posted on 05/05/2010 20:51 by Eelco Visser.
After testing the new auto tagging feature for a couple of days, researchr has decided that it is useful and works well. See the big tag cloud to see the initial results. Thus, the feature is now available for a larger group of users. The threshold on auto tagging has been lowered to users with 500 credits and a cost of 10 credits per tag.
Posted on 24/03/2010 11:26 by Eelco Visser.
Release 36 brings you further improvements of tagging
tags can be renamed, that is, the case of tags can be changed e.g. to capitalize the letters of an acronym or to de-capitalize a keyword or phrase
apply multiple tags at once for a publication by entering a list of tags separated by commas
tags are included in generated bibtex
Another change: some publications such as proceedings or older publications do not have an abstract. This can now be indicated.
Posted on 22/03/2010 19:05 by Eelco Visser.
Today release 35 of researchr was deployed. The release includes fixes for a number of bugs that you reported. In particular, feedback on bibtex upload has been improved; only one bibtex record can be uploaded at a time, and you are redirected to the edit page for the publication after submit. Numerous other smaller improvements were made. Thanks for the feedback and keep it coming. Note that issues can now also be reported through the YellowGrass issue tracker.
A new feature in this release is the site-wide tag cloud that shows the 1000 largest tags.
Another new feature is auto tagging which allows you to automatically tag all publications that match a tag keyword or phrase. Auto tagging is a feature for wealthy researchrs, since it requires a high amount of credits (currently 1000, but this may be lowered after initial testing), and instead of earning credits it costs credits (currently 25) to turn on auto tagging for a tag. Auto tagging also requires that the tag has already been applied to more than five publications. The motivation for this policy is that auto tagging should only be used for well chosen phrases. The hypothesis is that users with more credit will have a good sense for choosing good auto tags. Initial experience on the test version suggests that payback is high; quickly build up an overview of research field by inspecting the cross-sections of a number of well-chosen tags. To use the feature, earn credits by adding tags, publications, abstracts, etc.
Posted on 21/03/2010 16:51 by Eelco Visser.
Previously researchr supported 'tag cloud' views for bibliographies providing a quick overview of the important and less important topics in a set of publications collected in a bibliography. Similarly, an 'author cloud' gives an overview of the authors of a bibliograpy, emphasizing authors with many papers.
Now clouds are not just provided for tags and authors, but also for year, publication type, and publication venue.
Furthermore, cloud views are provided for all 'publication lists' in researchr: author profile, alias page (publications authored by author with same name), bibliography, tag, and also for the publications of the editions of a conference. The latter provides a nice overview of the community and topics of a conference series.
Posted on 27/02/2010 22:56 by Eelco Visser.