R Discovery: Academic Research

R Discovery is a free app for students and researchers to find and read research papers. This literature search and reading app for researchers curates an academic reading library based on your interests so you stay updated on latest academic research with access to scholarly articles, scientific journals, open access articles, and peer reviewed articles. With R Discovery, you can do a literature search like on Google Scholar, refseek, Research Gate, or Academia.edu, or let our AI generate separate feeds of relevant scholarly articles for you. We search, you read. It’s that simple!

R Discovery gives you access to :

• 250M+ Research articles (journal articles, clinical trials, conference papers & more)

• 40M+ Open access articles (world’s largest OA journal articles library)

• 3M+ Preprints from arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv & other preprint servers

• 9.5M+ Research topics

• 14M+ Authors

• 32K+ Academic journals

• 100K+Universities & Institutions

• Content from Microsoft Academic, PubMed, PubMed Central, CrossRef, Unpaywall, OpenAlex, etc.

See how R Discovery’s personalized research reading feed and unique features save time and improve your literature reading!

Largest repository of open access articles

Access the largest library of open access journal articles and preprints on mobile, with 40M+ open access articles from top publishers and global research databases.

Unlock full-text papers with institutional access

Use your university credentials to log in and access paywalled journal articles for your thesis research with our GetFTR & Libkey integrations.

Most reliable, cleanest research database

Read science articles from the most trustworthy global research paper database, cleaned to remove duplication, eliminate ambiguities in journal, publisher, author names, and exclude predatory content.

Curated research feeds

Benefit from our AI-curated research feeds dedicated to the Top 100 papers, open access articles, preprints, paywalled papers, journal feeds, etc. Coming up: New feeds on patents, conferences & seminars.

Reading lists from the research community

Access and share research recommendations by a community of peers in your field; these lists allow for quick, easy, relevant research discovery and better literature reading.

Collaborative reading lists

Save, view, and share your reading lists with co-researchers on your study. Easy knowledge sharing via our premium collaborative reading list feature helps accelerate innovation; so invite your peers to join now.

Audio streaming

Amplify your reading with audio listening for library lists, research paper titles & abstracts. This Prime feature lets you create audio playlists and delve into research articles on the go.

Research paper translation

Read research articles in your own language with our academic translation Prime feature. Choose a paper to read and click on the translate option to read in your chosen language.

Auto sync library with Zotero, Mendeley

Our auto sync Prime feature integrates your research paper topics and research library with Mendeley, Zotero, updating it every time you save or remove papers. Coming up: Endnote integrations!

Easy accessibility, summaries & notifications

Read research that matters with alerts on Just Published research papers and assess relevance with research summaries. Bookmark articles on the research app and read on the web at https://discovery.researcher.life/

R Discovery partners with research publications, including Elsevier, Wiley, IOP, Springer Nature, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Hindawi, NEJM, Emerald Publishing, Duke University Press, Intech Open, AIAA, Karger, Underline.io, SAGE, JStage for the best content.

Enjoy free research discovery or upgrade to R Discovery Prime to unlock unlimited use of our premium features. Join 2.4M+ academics and redefine the way you read on R Discovery, the highest rated app in this space (rated 4.6+ on Google Play). Get it now!