Question 1

How do I use the scite report page?

Accepted Answer

“Hmm, I wonder what others say about this publication? Can I trust it? I hope its findings are reproducible…” - Every researcher, ever

This article will cover:

What the scite report page is
How to use it effectively to evaluate a research publication

It also assumes that you:

Understand what Smart Citations are and how they are classified (See: How does scite work?)

The scite report for a given publication offers both a quantitative and qualitative look at how it has been cited by others in the broader literature. It is a feature we offer built on top of our database of Smart Citations.

In other words, for a given publication, you can see:

The number of times it was cited by others.
How it was cited, by quickly reading the text from the citing papers for each citation that occurred.
A classification from our system identifying each citation as being supporting, contrasting, or mentioning of its claims.

This allows you to quickly determine what was said about a publication without needing to retrieve each citing publication, let alone having to read each one to find the relevant citations.

By taking advantage of filtering, sorting, and searching citation snippets, you can quickly traverse the citations a publication has received and find the ones most relevant to you.

That all sounds interesting, but why should I use scite reports for my own research?

Finding reliable research is cr

Question 2

Writing a paper with scite

Accepted Answer

In this guide, we will teach you how to use scite to write a term paper including:

Search Literature with scite Advanced Search and Citation Statement Search
Evaluate research papers with scite Reports
Write a paper and find citations and references using the tools introduced above

Searching Literature with scite

A professor assigns a term paper. What’s your first step?

For most students, the answer is a literature search - looking up scholarly papers on the topic. In this brief guide, we’ll walk you through how scite can help you not only find articles, but how to use it to help you write your paper quickly and efficiently.

Let’s say you are writing a paper on Ego Depletion - the idea that human willpower is a limited resource that can be depleted.

First, you will want to use the scite search features to find relevant articles. There are two primary ways you can search with scite:

searching for papers by their titles, abstracts and other metadata (scite Advanced Search)
searching for papers by searching inside of papers directly (scite Citation Statement Search)

Searching For Papers by Title, Abstract, etc. (scite Advanced Search)

With scite, you can discover papers by whether they have been supported or contrasted by other authors. You will want to ensure that the papers you select are high quality.

For Ego Depletion, we can [make a search](

Question 3

How does Citation Statement Search work?

Accepted Answer

Citation Statements (sometimes known as citances) are the sentences surrounding a citation or reference within a publication.

For example, the following is a citation statement from Neighborhood Change and Crime in the Modern Metropolis Kirk and Laub (2010) to Crack, Cocaine and Heroin: Drug Eras in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1960-2000 Curtis (2003)

Yet, this accessibility contributed to gentrification in the 1980s. As Curtis (2003) observes, residents displaced from Manhattan in the mid-1980s because of rising rents flocked to nearby Williamsburg. Many boarded-up buildings and abandoned industrial areas, some of which were used as "shooting galleries" and drug stashes, were transformed into lofts and condos for gentrifiers.

With scite Citation Statment Search you are able to search our entire database of citation statements which numbers almost 1 billion citation statements. Using Citation Statement search allows you to search for how anything was mentioned in the scholarly literature from datasets, methods, protocols, assets, and research products to specific results, claims, and arguments.

For example, if you are interested in a particular fact you might search "Rate of chromosome missegregation in HeLa Cells" and get the following results:

How to interpret search results?

The search results are citation statements that wer

Question 4

What is scite?

Accepted Answer

In this guide, we'll cover what scite fundamentally does.

scite is a tool which offers a quantitative and qualitative insight into how scientific publications cite each other.

Citations are everywhere. In scientific publishing, they're the mechanism by which we build knowledge; new research often cites existing literature to improve our collective understanding of a topic.

Today when we look at a scientific publication, the main thing discussed is how many times the publication was cited by others. It is purely quantitative, but not all citations are equal. When a paper is cited, there is textual context surrounding why a citation was made that can be inferred from the section the citation was made in, and what is said by the authors in the citing paper.

scite uses access to full-text articles and its deep learning model to tell you, for a given publication:

how many times it was cited by others
how it was cited by others by displaying the text where the citation happened from each citing paper
whether each citation offers supporting or contrasting evidence of the cited claims in the publication of interest, or simply mention it

Okay, how does it work?

scite processes full-text articles to build out its database of Smart Citations, which contain information about:

which papers are citing each other
the textual context of each citation and the location within the citing paper
a classification de

Question 5

scite for Students

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Students around the world use scite to help them write papers, find references, and analyze the quality of research.

Some of the ways we help students are:

Help find out what to cite by searching
Help understand if a paper has been supported or disputed
Help perform a critical analysis and litearture review of a topic by showing how a topic or paper has been discussed by experts

For more ways on how we help students see: scite for Students

scite offers students a 30% discount on any of our plans.

Please email us at sales@scite.ai if you are a student and would like to use our discount or extended trial.

If you are getting a lot of value from scite - please contact your university librarians or department head and ask them to contact us at sales@scite.ai about a plan for your university.

Question 6

How a Research Lead Uses scite to Efficiently Conduct Systematic Literature Reviews and Network Meta-Analyses

Accepted Answer

A research lead at a private company needed to conduct systematic literature reviews and network meta-analyses in rapidly changing disease areas. They also found themselves shifting between multiple disease areas based on new business requirements. Ramping up quickly and staying up to date on all these areas of research proved to be difficult, until they discovered scite.

At a high level, they wanted to perform the following tasks:

Identifying experts in a particular disease area
Discovering and staying up to date on the latest relevant and reliable research
Evaluating the relevance and quality of research, especially in an area that they might have been unfamiliar with
Efficiently checking the quality of references they use in their own manuscripts by seeing if any have editorial notices (retractions, corrections, etc.) and how they were generally cited in other publications

Let’s go through how they managed each of these with and without scite.

Identifying experts in a particular disease areas

As part of their process, they have an information collection phase where they speak to clinical and scientific experts to help craft research questions. In many cases, it is often their first time in a disease area, so they are typically unsure of the established experts in the field.

Traditionally they approach the problem by finding review papers that cover a topic of interest, scroll down to the bibliography, and

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