Question 1

Writing a paper with scite

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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 2

How do I use the scite Reference Check?

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“I hope that the manuscript did not accidentally reference something retracted… or heavily contrasted by others.” - Everyone involved in scientific publishing

This article will cover:

How you can use Reference Check to be more confident in manuscripts you submit or review
How to use it on a sample PDF
How to interpret the results
Who it’s relevant for
Some FAQ towards the end

It also assumes that you:

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

We explored elsewhere how scite’s Smart Citations work and how they can help you more quickly evaluate a research paper.

Now let’s see how you can improve other aspects of your research process with scite.

This document is focused on Reference Check, a feature we have that improves the publishing and peer-review process by allowing you to quickly understand:

how a manuscript uses its references
how each each reference itself has been cited by others
whether there is anything to worry about any of the references (e.g. editorial notices such as retractions, or if any have a lot of contrasting findings).

We will caveat that though Reference Check is a premium feature, it is possible to try it out with our one month free trial when you register a new account. For the purposes of this article, you can follow along using an example of the output [here.](https://scite.ai/reference-check/683e0cbc-b3

Question 3

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 4

What is scite?

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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

How are citations classified?

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Citations are classified by a deep learning model that is trained to identify three categories of citation statements: those that provide contrasting or supporting evidence for the cited work, and others, which mention the cited study without providing evidence for its validity.

Citations are classified by rhetorical function, not positive or negative sentiment.
Citations are not classified as supporting or contrasting by positive or negative keywords.
A Suppporting citation can have a negative sentiement and a Contrasting citation can have a positive sentiement. Sentiment and rhetorical function are not correlated.
Supporting and Contrasting citations do not necessarily indicate that the exact set of experiments were performed. For example, if a paper finds that drug X causes phenomenon Y in mice and a subsequent paper finds that drug X causes phenomenon Y in yeast but both come to this conclusion with different experiments—this would be classified as a supporting citation, even though identical experiments were not performed.
Citations that simply use the same method, reagent, or software are not classified as supporting. To identify methods citations, you can filter by the section.

For full technical details including exactly how we do classification, what classifications and classification confidence means please read our recent publication describing how scite was built: [https://doi.org/10.1162/qssa00146](https://doi.org/10.1162

Question 6

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

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