Research Rabbit AI

Research Rabbit

Research Rabbit is a free AI (artificial intelligence) online tool that can help you find literature in your field of interest. You give the tool a selection of papers that you are interested in, and you will get suggestions of papers that are similar based on citations. You can connect Research rabbit to Zotero to get suggestions based on your existing Zotero collections.

Set up a Research rabbit account and connect Zotero

1. Go to https://www.researchrabbit.ai/ Links to an external site. and sign up.

2. Sign in to your account

3. Click the button on the top left that says: Connect to Zotero:

4. A new tab will open. Log in to Zotero online if you are not already logged in

5. Click the Accept Defaults button:

6. Close the tab and return to Research Rabbit. Finished!

Sync Zotero collections with Research Rabbit

In Research Rabbit, click the button "Import Zotero Collection" on the left hand side:

A dialogue box will appear with all your Zotero collections and subcollections. Choose which ones you would want to add to Research Rabbit and click the Start Sync button:

You can either choose a new name or type in the same name as the Zotero collection. The collection will now be visible in the left hand pane in Research rabbit:

 

Find similar papers to your collection

To find new papers that are similar to the papers in this collection, first click the collection in research rabbit, then click the button "Similar Work" on the Explore Papers panel to the right:

You will now get a list of suggestions of similar papers. There will also be a graph showing the papers in relation to each other based on citations (green are papers from your collection, blue are new papers).

TIP: If you are unhappy with the suggestions, one reason could be that your original collection contains too many papers, or papers that are too different from each other. Try selecting fewer (5-7) papers from your original collection to re-do the analysis. Tick the small box on the upper left of the papers you want to include (be careful so that you don't click the red X and remove the paper...). Then redo the analysis (Explore papers > Similar Work). Alternatively, create a new collection with fewer papers that are more on focus.

Find the newest papers

To quickly show the newest papers, you can switch the Graph Type from Network to Timeline:

You can also filter the list of suggestions on "Recency":

If you are specifically interested in newer work, select "Later Work" instead of "Similar Work" in the Explore Papers panel. However, depending on your original set of papers, this option will not always be available.

There are many options in Research Rabbit to further investigate and find new papers, feel free to explore!

Visualize references or citations

If you select only one paper, you will get the option to show either the references or the citations in a graph:

To look at the references can be particularly useful if you are looking at a review paper and quickly want to get an overview over the research within the subject. To look at the citations can be particularly useful if you have found one specific paper that are spot on your subject and you want to see what other studies that have found this information useful.

Adding new papers to your collection

Whenever you find a new paper that you want to include in your collection, click on it in the result list or in the graph, and select "Add to collection" in the menu on the far right:

You can also drag-and-drop it from the result list into your collection.

Sync back to Zotero

When you have finished exploring and adding papers to your collection in Research Rabbit, you can sync back to Zotero, to also add the new papers to your collection there. Click the button "Re-Sync with Zotero" at the bottom of your list of papers in the collection:

Note that many of the papers added to Zotero from Research Rabbit will not have the PDF attached.