What are Smart Citations?
A citation statement is an excerpt from a paper that references another paper. A smart citation gives context to a citation statement. This is through including the surrounding context of a citation mention and giving a label to the statement whether that is supporting, contrasting, or mentioning. The smart citation of a paper will also provide a confidence percentage that gives you an idea of accuracy.
Here is an example of a smart citation in scite.ai.
Smart citations attempt to summarize the opinion of a piece of literature in a quick categorization of a supporting, contrasting or mentioning article. This feature allows you to look at some chosen quotes from the paper in relation to the citations that have supported, refuted, or mentioned along with a confidence level for the categorization.
What are the risks of smart citations?
Smart citations accelerate research, but risk bias by reducing papers to a single metric. This can lead researchers to favor papers that align with their views, potentially overlooking conflicting evidence. While Scite simplifies the review of sources, the criteria for "high supporting" or "low contrasting" scores are subjective and often inaccurate. All contrasting and retracted works should be examined, and numerical scores should be considered as context, not definitive judgments.
The scite assistant can help you kickstart your research with search strategies and papers. You can also just to ask simple prompts or a question to learn about the environment of a new field. This feature allows you to simply chose options to control the assistant's response. You can require that scite assistant can only pull from the sources in your dashboard which will allow you to have it pull certain information from said sources.
Another feature of scite assistant is making a table with customizable columns. You can do this but searching a question and then selecting the option "Use a table" then you can add columns of interests with question along with choices for formatting options.
When you load the search feature, it will give you the choice to search through papers or citation statement. There is searching for citation statements through searching a portion of the desired statement and searching for citation statements through keywords, etc. You can create a search alert which will notify you if there is a new paper related to the search or/and if a new citation relating to the search is found. When searching through results, you can export your results to a csv or export articles straight to a dashboard. You can also filter through your results to find what is relevant to you and then export them.
Main Features
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To import citations, open your dashboard. You can import from either your Zotero or Mendeley library. You also have the option of copy and paste your DOIs into the textbox or importing a csv of DOIs. There are also plugins for Mendeley and Zotero. This will show the smart citation numbers for the papers that are already in your Mendeley and Zotero.
Why?
The feature of the plugins will help you get a quick look at your sources. Scite uses smart citations for users to get an overview on their sources through quick metrics and scite reports.
Why have the scite Chrome Extension?
By having the Chrome Extension, you can view the scite badges on scholarly platforms which have the basic smart citation metrics on it. This same badge would also pop up when you are reading scholarly papers. Another feature of the Chrome Extension is when you see a claim on the internet that you want to look further into, you can highlight it and right click to have the ability to ask scite.ai assistant.
Warnings:
When you go to download the scite browser extension, Google Chrome will ask to have the ability to read and change all data on all website you visit. This means that scite: browser extension will try to search the webpage for a DOI and index it into their database. While this is typically for browser extensions, we advise you to think through the decision.
Click the Products drop down and select Reference Check then you can upload a manuscript for scite. This feature fact checks your sources for your for any erratums or other problems. It shows how a source was cited in papers and excerpts from the paper used the source of interest. This is important because it can help supported and important works get circulated instead of withdrawn works and work with later contrasting articles.
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How to create one?
You can either import citations through your dashboard tab. You can import from a service, your Zotero or Mendeley library. You also have the option of copy and paste your DOIs into the textbox or importing a csv of DOIs. If you are starting from scratch, then you can start a search, add articles from selecting articles, and clicking the add to dashboard button.
Why?
Creating a dashboard has many benefits such as creating a visualization of your sources in a dashboard, searching solely based on your dashboard, and easily adding to your database of sources. A dashboard allows to keep all of your sources together while also serving a functional purpose of being able to ask questions easily based on your sources. The dashboard feature also allows you to easily access an overview and summary of each article. A dashboard allows you to get a quick look at your sources citations with the smart citation feature and how they have been cited over time.
The bibliographic network is helpful for exploring papers that cite each other. This can lead you to staple pieces of literature in your field. In the visualization mode, it shows the number of citations by the size of each node. You start with one of your papers and then as you explore other papers you can add those to the visualization. This helps you get an idea of how connected your papers are. You can change the layout depending on the type of connections you are seeing in the papers.
Why have an Author Profile?
What is a scite.ai badge?
A Scite badge is a visual aspect that you can easily add to your website through script that they provide. You can provide Scite metrics for your papers integrated directly onto your website. You can customize how the metrics look and the visualization type. They have two types of visualizations. You can find the script to add to your website on the scite.ai home page under Product>Badge.
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