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Year three of a global pandemic. A war in Ukraine. Inflation in the U.S. at a 40-year high. Small talk around the watercooler (mainly the virtual one, nowadays) certainly feels heavier than it used to.

Recent Gallup data indicates that in 2022, companies and managers remain challenged by the task of raising employee engagement to pre-pandemic levels. Nearly half of global workers (44%) surveyed reported feeling “a lot” of stress in the previous day. The Great Resignation has demonstrated the power of employees to vote with their feet, and a resurgence of the labor movement in the U.S. has put pressure on even top-tier companies to improve working conditions.

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Companies that have thrived amid the pandemic and worker reshuffling have focused on worker well-being from the start. Unfortunately, for many employees across the globe, this may be the exception rather than the norm. As Gallup’s Jon Clifton put it, “Improving life at work isn’t rocket science, but the world is closer to colonizing Mars than it is to fixing the world’s broken workplaces.”

To begin to fix these issues, managers must focus on two areas in particular: leadership and culture. In the first months of the year, many MIT SMR readers turned their attention to articles focused on workplace culture, talent management, and employee retention.

With many companies now adopting permanent remote and hybrid work policies, other popular articles include data-driven approaches to managing well-being on virtual teams — from scheduling meeting-free days to creating systems for supporting mental health.

The following are the 10 most popular articles of the year so far. We hope they will continue to help managers who are looking to support employee engagement and build thriving workplaces.

#1 Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation

Donald sull, charles sull, and ben zweig.

In this article, the authors discuss the top five predictors of employee turnover uncovered by their analysis of attrition data during the Great Resignation and share four actions that managers can take in the short term to improve employee satisfaction.

#2 Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness

Paul b. lester, ed diener, and martin seligman.

Research has found that happiness, a sense of well-being, and an optimistic outlook are powerful predictors of how well an employee will perform. Managers who consciously promote employee well-being and take steps to eliminate toxic leadership in their business units will reap the benefits.

#3 The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days

Ben laker, vijay pereira, pawan budhwar, and ashish malik.

Spending too much time in meetings can detract from effective collaboration, derail workers during their most productive hours, and interrupt people’s train of thought. No-meeting policies permit team members to excel without breaking their momentum, but specific plans must be tailored to each unique organizational context to maximize the benefits. The authors suggest several ways to deploy a no-meeting policy or adjust an existing one.

#4 Orchestrating Workforce Ecosystems

Elizabeth j. altman, david kiron, robin jones, and jeff schwartz.

Research conducted by MIT SMR and Deloitte examines the challenges companies and managers face in leading and coordinating workforces that increasingly rely on external contributors.

#5 Why Every Leader Needs to Worry About Toxic Culture

Donald sull, charles sull, william cipolli, and caio brighenti.

According to research, the five most common elements of toxic workplace cultures — being disrespectful, noninclusive, unethical, cutthroat, and abusive — contribute the most to employee attrition and can damage company reputation. Being aware of these elements and understanding how they spread can help employers prevent and address them.

#6 Building the Cognitive Budget for Your Most Effective Mind

Jordan birnbaum.

There’s a limit to how much mental energy is available to us on any given day, so it’s essential that we spend it deliberately and thoughtfully. This article details the process of creating a cognitive budget, using techniques from positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, and behavioral economics.

#7 Stop Telling Employees to Be Resilient

Liz fosslien and mollie west duffy.

When it comes to leadership, there’s a difference between demanding that employees be mentally tough and actually helping them take care of their mental health. The authors suggest five actions leaders can take to create a workplace that supports employees and fosters resilience.

#8 Effective Leaders Decide About Deciding

Nancy duarte.

Categorizing decisions by riskiness and urgency helps clarify when employees should move autonomously and when they should pull leaders into decision-making.

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#9 leading change means changing how you lead, b. tom hunsaker and jonathan knowles.

Adapting your leadership approach is necessary for achieving the change your organization requires. The authors discuss three tasks — drawing the map, establishing the mindset, and communicating the message — that are essential to becoming a contextually effective leader.

#10 How Well-Designed Work Makes Us Smarter

Sharon k. parker and gwenith g. fisher.

Work that permits autonomy and demands problem-solving can bolster employees’ cognitive skills and ongoing learning. This article looks at how organizations and managers can use good work design to strengthen their workforce’s ability to adapt to new processes, tools, and roles.

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The new year is a great time to set ambitious goals. But alongside our plans for the future, it’s also helpful to acknowledge all the challenges we’ve faced — and the progress we’ve made — in the last 12 months. In this end-of-year roundup, we share key insights and trends from HBR’s most-read research articles of 2022, exploring topics from embracing a new identity to fostering equity in the workplace and beyond.

For many of us, the arrival of a new year can be equal parts inspiring and daunting. While the promise of a fresh start is often welcome, it’s also a reminder of all the challenges we faced in the last 12 months — and all those still awaiting us, that we have yet to overcome.

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The International Space Station spotted the origins of a bizarre type of upside-down lightning called a blue jet (illustrated) zipping up from a thundercloud into the stratosphere in 2019. The discovery ranked among  Science News ' most-read stories of 2021.

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Science News drew over 21 million visitors to our website this year. Here’s a rundown of the most-read news stories and long reads of 2021.

Top news stories

1. space station detectors found the source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning.

Instruments on the International Space Station detected the origins of an odd type of lightning called a blue jet. The bizarre bolt is sparked by a “blue bang” — a flash of bright blue light that may be brought on by the turbulent mixing of oppositely charged regions within a thundercloud ( SN: 2/13/21, p. 14 ).

2. A newfound quasicrystal formed in the first atomic bomb test

The first atomic bomb test, in 1945, forged a peculiar, glassy material called trinitite — and within it, a rare form of matter called a quasicrystal . Quasicrystals’ atoms are arranged in an orderly structure like normal crystals, but the structure’s pattern doesn’t repeat ( SN: 6/19/21, p. 12 ).

3. An Indigenous people in the Philippines have the most Denisovan DNA

The Ayta Magbukon people in the Philippines set the record for the highest known level of Denisovan ancestry — about 5 percent of their DNA comes from the ancient hominids . The finding suggests that several Denisovan populations independently reached Southeast Asia and interbred with Homo sapiens groups that arrived thousands of years later ( SN: 9/11/21, p. 16 ).

4. Astronomers may have seen a star gulp down a black hole and explode

In a first, astronomers caught a glimpse of a rare double cosmic cannibalism : A star swallowed a black hole or neutron star, which then gobbled that star from within, resulting in an astonishing explosion ( SN: 10/9/21 & 10/23/21, p. 6 ).

5. Frog skin cells turned themselves into living machines

Skin stem cells plucked from frog embryos organized themselves into miniature living robots, dubbed “xenobots,” that can swim, move around debris and even self-heal . Xenobots may one day serve a useful purpose, but ethical questions need to be considered ( SN: 4/24/21, p. 8 ).

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Acrobatic rabbits bewitched online readers in our most-viewed YouTube video posted this year. The video — accompanying the story “ A gene defect may make rabbits do handstands instead of hop ” ( SN: 4/24/21, p. 13 ) — shows a sauteur d’Alfort rabbit walking on its front paws (below). Such hop-less bunnies may have adopted the odd gait because of a mutation in a gene called RORB , scientists discovered.

Top feature stories

1. new drugs that block a brain chemical are game changers for some migraine sufferers.

A class of drugs that inhibits a neurotransmitter called calcitonin gene-related peptide is helping some patients who suffer from chronic, debilitating migraines ( SN: 3/27/21, p. 16 ).

2. Einstein’s theory of general relativity unveiled a dynamic and bizarre cosmos

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity has served as the bedrock of our understanding of the cosmos. In the last 100 years, scientists have confirmed its most radical predictions, including black holes, gravitational waves and an expanding universe ( SN: 2/13/21, p. 16 ).

3. Chemists are reimagining recycling to keep plastics out of landfills

No matter people’s dedication to sorting and recycling plastics, most still end up in landfills because the materials are too difficult to transform into useful new products. Some chemists are trying to change that ( SN: 1/30/21, p. 20 ).

4. Psychology has struggled for a century to make sense of the mind

In the last 100 years, psychologists and other social scientists have dug into the muddy “science of us” and developed conflicting theories about human thought and behavior. From the messy, contentious research bloomed insights into what makes humans tick ( SN: 8/14/21, p. 18 ).

5. Fossils and ancient DNA paint a vibrant picture of human origins

From the Taung Child to Lucy, the last century of paleoanthropology has sketched a rough timeline of how humans came to be. Scientists now agree that human evolution has its roots in Africa, but many mysteries in our history remain to be solved ( SN: 9/25/21, p. 20 ).

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Provocative girls, silent employees, the bittersweet aftertaste of oil, and understanding people who spend millions on digital assets. Here are the articles our readers were most deeply engaged with this year.

Before we wrap up another year in the name of COVID, we went back and looked at what stories you, our dear readers, were most captivated by in 2021.

In what is becoming to look like a Christmas tradition, our most popular article of the year is once again Christine Myrvang and her in-depth look at the provocative girls’ era of the 1920s. If you have not already, make sure you check out this six-year-old article on a 100-year-old phenomenon.  

1) How flappers rebelled through feminism and consumerism

“A new female figure appeared in the 1920s. Young girls with their hair shaved short, heavy makeup and donning bolder dresses. They rode bikes and drove cars, chain-smoked cigarettes, drank like men, flirted outrageously, and plunged into wild jazz dances like charleston and black bottom.”

Have you ever noticed something wrong at work, yet decided to stay quiet? Sut I Wong and her study of why employees do not speak up obviously hit a nerve for many of us.

2) Cultures of silence

“In assertive cultures, the tendency of having higher levels of confrontation in the workplace can also create a threatening work context if voicing out can come with a cost. This can lead employees to think twice about whether challenging the status quo is worth the hassle.”

Rounding out the top three is philosopher Øyvind Kvalnes and his 2020 article on social media dilemmas.

3) Ethical dilemmas of social media – and how to navigate them

“Increased activities in social media and rapid publication create a range of dilemmas for decisions-makers within organizations, where they must prioritize conflicting ethical considerations.”

Fittingly enough, in fourth place we find an article, first published in 2020, on why the four biggest international auditing firms dominate the global market, written by Ole-Kristian Hope , John Christian Langli and Limei Che .

4) Why the big four provide higher quality audits

“EY, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC give the best audits. Here's why.”

While many of us are tired of living in the middle of a global pandemic, we are still interested in reading about living in the middle of a global pandemic. Readers flocked to Ragnhild Silkoset and this 2020 piece on changing people’s behaviour in the age of COVID.

5) Covid-19: The dysfunctional effect of coercive power to control the pandemic

“We see that the expectation of quick solutions and active action often leads to ill-considered strategies to influence people, companies and organizations. The use of intrusive coercive force may lead to counteractive power, loss of trust and increasing conflict in a society.”

Next on the list is another article diving into the tantalizing theme of Covid-19 and human behaviour, from our Swedish colleague Anders Gustafsson .

6) 7 ways life in lockdown is changing our behaviour

“The corona outbreak is a disaster for our society, but it is also an interesting time to reflect on how we treat ourselves and others. When the crisis is over, however, we should let certain behaviours die in peace.”

Readers cannot seem to get enough of articles on good (or bad) leadership practices. Find out why Øyvind Lund Martinsen and his article on leader personalities still attract huge interest, even almost eight years after it was first published.

7) Personality for leadership

“The best leaders are in the public sector and female leaders are better suited for leadership than men, indicates a study of nearly 3000 managers.”

How will Equinor’s U.S. scandal change corporate governance in state-owned Norwegian companies? Check out this piece from January, signed BI’s PhD candidate Jenni Maria Nossum .

8) The bittersweet aftertaste of oil

“Owning an oil company is not without financial and environmental risk. Does the State as a shareholder have greater legal duties than a private shareholder does?”

Most companies never expand outside their home markets. So, what drives the ones that do? This question clearly interested a lot of readers. Anyway, nice of Gabriel R.G. Benito , Irina Surdu and Henrich R. Greve to provide us with an answer!

9) Why companies internationalize

“Success in entering a foreign market depends on a company’s ability to unpack the lessons learned from its own past experiences and the experiences of peer companies and developing them into routines.”

Last, but not least: What makes so many people interested in buying digital assets like NFTs – and why are they willing to pay millions for them? Carlos Velasco and colleagues Maria Pombo and Francisco Barbosa-Escobar investigate.

10) Value in the age of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

“The CEO of Twitter sold his first tweet as a NFT for over 2.9 million USD. CryptoPunks, a well-known NFT project that consists of 10,000 collectible characters, has also drawn much attention. Today, the lowest price you can pay for one of them is about 85 ETH. That is about 360,000 USD for a collectible picture on the internet, which can be downloaded by anyone.”

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Are we addressing the top 10 research priorities in ibd, jeroen geldof.

1 IBD unit, St Mark's Hospital and Academic Institute, Harrow, London, UK

Jean-Frédéric LeBlanc

Laura lucaciu.

2 IBD-unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

Jonathan Segal

Charlie w lees.

3 Centre for Genomics and Experimental Medicine, The University of Edinburgh MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh, UK

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flgastro-2020-101579supp001.pdf

Data are available in a public, open access repository. Data are available on reasonable request. All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as online supplemental information. Data were extracted from ClinicalTrials.gov and European Union Clinical Trials Register. Please see the 'Methods' from the main manuscript.

Since publication of the top 10 research priorities in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) based on the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership, the question remains whether this has influenced the IBD-research landscape. This study aimed to create an overview of the current distribution of research interests of trials in the UK.

The ClinicalTrials.gov database and European Union Clinical Trials Register were screened for clinical trials set up from 9 August 2016 to 16 November 2019 in the UK involving adult patients with IBD.

Of 20 non-industry-sponsored studies, a quarter investigated treatment strategies considering efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness (priority 1). Four evaluated the role of diet (priorities 3 and 7). Development/assessment of biomarkers for patient stratification (priority 2) and fatigue (priority 8) were subject of three studies. IBD-related pain and control of diarrhoea/incontinence were each subject of 2 studies (priorities 4 and 6). The effect of gut microbiota (priority 10) and optimal strategy for perianal Crohn’s disease (priority 5) was the focus of 2 studies each. One study evaluated surgery for terminal ileal Crohn’s disease (priority 9). Of 63 industry-sponsored studies, 59 focused on priority 1.

Conclusions

This study presents an impression of the breadth of the IBD-research landscape in the UK, in light of the top 10 research priorities published in 2016. Optimal treatment strategy has been the most studied research priority by academic and industry-sponsored trials. Fewer studies focused on patient-reported outcomes. It remains debatable to what extent the current research landscape adequately represents all stakeholders’ viewpoints on needs for expanded knowledge in IBD, particularly the patients’ perspective.

Key messages

What is already known on this topic.

• In 2016, the top 10 research priorities in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were published based on the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership in the UK.

What this study adds

• This study shows over the past 3 years that multiple clinical trials have been set up in the UK addressing the top 10 research priorities in IBD, mainly focusing on development and assessment of therapeutic strategies (priority 1). Other research priorities, and especially patient-reported outcomes such as IBD-related pain, fatigue and management of diarrhoea/incontinence are also addressed, but less frequently.

How might it impact on clinical practice in the foreseeable future

• It remains debatable to what extent the current research landscape adequately represents all stakeholders’ viewpoints on needs for expanded knowledge in IBD, particularly the patients’ perspective.

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are chronic relapsing and remitting conditions characterised by inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. Ulcerative colitis (UC) was first described in 1859 by Sir Samuel Wilks. In 1913, a case series of interstitial enteritis was published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ ) by Scottish surgeon Dalziel. 1 It took until 1932, when Burrill B. Crohn, Leon Ginzburg and Gordon D. Oppenheimer published their landmark article, to identify what became known as Crohn’s disease. 2

Since publication of these historical documents, numerous research efforts have been made to clarify the optimal management of these diseases. 3 4 Sulfasalazine, a combination of 5-ASA and sulfapyridine, was synthesised by the Swedish physician Nana Svartz in 1940 and first used to treat people with arthritis and subsequently those with UC. 5 Corticosteroids were shown to improve symptoms and reduce mortality in UC in a randomised controlled trial by Truelove and Witts. 6 Immunosuppressants were first shown to be effective in IBD in the 1960s using thiopurines and in 1980s with methotrexate. 7 Surgery has been used throughout; the original descriptions were all of resection specimens. Techniques have been refined over decades, with techniques such as ileostomy and subtotal or total colectomy being standardised in 1930s. A better understanding of immunology, molecular biology and genetics of IBD has led to the development of the first biological therapies based on anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) inhibition, such as infliximab and adalimumab. 8 The successful use of these therapies has in part been due to a shift in the focus of treatment from only symptom control to a ‘treat to target’ approach: including normalisation of biomarkers, mucosal healing, histological healing and healing on abdominal imaging. 9 Furthermore, standards of IBD care have risen with the implementation of an IBD multidisciplinary team involving GI consultants, surgeons, specialist nurses, dietitians, psychologists, pathologists and radiologists. 10

Nonetheless, many unanswered questions remain in a variety of aspects of IBD to include prevalence, aetiology, optimal treatments and treatment targets as well as priorities from a patients perspective. 11–14 In order to help prioritise research into these areas, as of 2014, a group of multidisciplinary clinicians, patients and patient-support organisations based in the UK collaborated in order to outline the top 10 research priorities in the treatment of IBD using the infrastructure of the James Lind Alliance (JLA) Priority Setting Partnership (PSP).

The JLA PSP provides a framework based on a transparent, democratic and reproducible process and is recognised as the gold standard in setting research priorities. The JLA is a UK-based non-profit initiative created in 2004 by the National Institute of Health Research Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre. 11 The JLA PSP process requires active participation from patients, patient-support organisations and clinicians, on an equal basis, in order to highlight unanswered questions regarding therapeutic options in a specific disease state. Over 30 disease areas have been subjected to a JLA PSP process, such as diabetes and dementia. 12 13 The JLA-based PSP should include at least the following five stages. A steering group is composed of key representatives from relevant healthcare organisations and from patient and patient-support groups (stage 1). The scope and timeline of the PSP are then established (stage 2), followed by the collection of potential research questions through anonymous surveys (stage 3). The treatment uncertainties are then collated and summarised by members of the steering group (stage 4). The ‘top 10’ list of research priorities are then determined by the JLA participants through face-to-face workshops designed to reach general consensus in a stepwise fashion (stage 5). 14 Non-clinical academic researchers and the pharmaceutic industry are not involved in any of the five stages to ensure that the identified research priorities were the ones that are most important to the patients and their healthcare professionals. 2 14

The steering committee of the UK IBD collaborative partnership included two IBD patients, two gastroenterologists, two IBD specialist nurses, two colorectal surgeons, two dieticians, a representative from the UK IBD charity organisation Crohn’s and Colitis UK, a representative of the JLA and an administrator. This initiative was the first in its kind in gastroenterology and the final output was the publication of 10 key research priorities, ranked in order of perceived importance (see box 1 ). 3

Top 10 research priorities in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) resulting from the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership in 2016

1. What is the optimal treatment strategy considering efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness (immunomodulators, biologics, surgery, combinations) in IBD management: selecting the right patient group, right stage of disease, and assessing potential for withdrawal?

2. What are the optimal markers/ combinations of markers (clinical, endoscopic, imaging, genetics, other biomarkers) for stratification of patients with regards to (A) disease course and (B) monitoring disease activity and (C) treatment response?

3. What role does diet have in the management of mildly active or inactive ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease to achieve normal daily activities and symptom control?

4. How can pain be most effectively managed in people with IBD?

5. What is an optimal treatment strategy for perianal Crohn’s disease and what individual factors determine this?

6. What is the best treatment for controlling diarrhoea and/or incontinence symptoms in people with IBD, including novel pharmacological and non-pharmacological options? Is high-dose loperamide safe and effective in the treatment of diarrhoea in IBD?

7. What is the optimal dietary therapy (liquid enteral diet and/or reintroduction diet) and duration to achieve mucosal healing in active IBD and/or remission either as a primary or adjunctive treatment? Is there a difference between adults and children?

8. What is the association between IBD and fatigue and how should it be managed?

9. Does early surgery or later surgery for terminal ileal Crohn’s disease result in better outcomes (quality of life, cost-effectiveness)?

10. Does influencing the gut microbiota influence the course of IBD?

Six years after initiation of the JLA PSP process for IBD therapies and over 3 years after the publication of the top 10 IBD-research priorities, the question remains whether this initiative has had an impact on the research landscape. Therefore, the aim of this study is to create an overview of the current distribution over these top 10 research domains of all clinical trials in adults with IBD ongoing or completed in the UK within the past 3 years.

The database from ClinicalTrials.gov and European Union Clinical Trials Register was used to create a list of all clinical studies set up in the UK involving adult patients with IBD. Trials posted on 9 August 2016 (publication date of the top 10 research questions) up to 16 November 2019 were included. Any relevant studies known to the authors and not found in this search were added to the list. Pharmaceutical industry-sponsored trials were recorded in a separate list given their inherent bias towards drug conception and approval. For each trial, data were collected on study type, sponsor and progression status. If the study was finished, then the PubMed database was searched for a corresponding publication. All study data were exported as an SPSS statistics 26 file for analysis.

In total, 20 non-pharmaceutical-funded clinical studies in the UK were found ( online supplemental table 1 ) of which eight were randomised clinical trials, six were non-randomised (open-label) clinical trials and six were observational studies. All studies addressed at least one of the top 10 IBD-research priorities. The IBD-BOOST trial, the PREdiCCt study and the MODULATE trial addressed multiple priorities simultaneously.

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The distribution of these studies per research priority number is given in figure 1 . A quarter of the non-pharmaceutical-driven IBD studies investigated the optimal treatment strategy considering efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness (immunomodulators, biologics, surgery) in IBD (priority 1). Four studies evaluated the role of diet in IBD management (priorities 3 and 7). Development or assessment of biomarkers for stratification of patients (priority 2) was subject of three studies, although no study focused on development of markers for treatment response (priority 2c).

Number of non-pharmaceutical sponsored studies on adult patients per JLA-IBD research priority since 9 August 2016 in the UK (n=20–3 studies focused on more than one priority). JLA-IBD, James Lind Alliance-inflammatory bowel disease.

Important patient-reported outcomes such as IBD-related pain and control of diarrhoea and incontinence were each subject of two studies (respectively, priorities 4 and 6). Only one study (MODULATE trial) evaluated the effectiveness of loperamide in IBD (part of priority 6). Three studies focused on the association between fatigue and IBD and its management (priority 8).

Measuring the effect of altered gut microbiota on the evolution of IBD (priority 10) and determining the optimal treatment strategy for perianal Crohn’s disease (priority 5) was the target of two studies each. One study assessed surgical treatment for terminal ileal Crohn’s disease (priority 9).

Nineteen out of 20 studies were initiated by investigators from the UK and exclusively carried out in the UK. Only the LIR!C trial was led by a sponsor outside the UK and with participating UK sites. Of all studies, two were finished at the time of data collection, of which only the LIR!C trial was published, which was led by Dutch researchers with contribution from UK-based investigators. 15 The other completed study was a feasibility study prior to the CD-TREAT trial and was not published. The STOP-Colitis pilot trial protocol was published but the study itself is ongoing at the time of enquiry. 16 Meanwhile, in December 2019, the pilot trial on cognitive–behavioural therapy for the management of IBD-fatigue by Artom et al has also been published. 17

The same evaluation was done for pharmaceutical-driven studies in the past 3 years. In total, 63 studies were found using the ClinicalTrials.gov database relating to at least one of the JLA Top 10 research priorities. The vast majority of these studies (59/63) focused on priority 1 concerning development and validation of new medical treatments (see figure 2 ). Of all 63 studies, six were finished at the moment of enquiry ( online supplemental table 2 ).

Number of pharmaceutical industry sponsored studies on adult patients per JLA-IBD research priority since 9 August 2016 in the UK (n=63). JLA-IBD, James Lind Alliance-inflammatory bowel disease.

The results of this study confirm that, as to be expected, industry-sponsored research is mainly focused on development and validation of new medical therapies (priority 1). Other research priorities, in particular addressing symptom management which is important to patients, are mainly overlooked by the industry-driven research. As for the non-industry-sponsored studies, the distribution follows the order of the priority ranking. Priority number 1 remains the most frequently targeted study subject, accounting for 25% of all studies. The role of dietary interventions in IBD is gaining interest and was subject of 20% of all studies. Some non-industry-sponsored studies focused on patient-reported outcomes such as IBD-related pain (two studies), fatigue (three studies) and diarrhoea/incontinence (two studies), but these studies accounted for only a small proportion of all the trials. As a consequence, it remains debatable to what extent the current landscape of clinical trials adequately represents the patients’ viewpoint on needs for expanded knowledge in IBD and thus, it might be suggested that these research subjects should be prioritised in the near future.

This study has some important limitations and therefore it is difficult to draw robust conclusions from this overview. First of all, the search for trials was restricted to the UK since development of the JLA-IBD Top 10 research priorities was a solely UK initiative. Second, the number of retrieved studies not sponsored by industry is small. Furthermore, the search was limited to the ClinicalTrials.gov database and the European Union Clinical Trials Register. Any relevant studies known to the authors were added to the list. Given the possible report bias, we acknowledge that this overview of studies might be incomplete. Last but not least, the time frame of evaluation is relatively short and the question remains to what extent the message of the publication of the 10 IBD research priorities had been spread throughout the research landscape before the setup of the investigated studies, especially in the first year after publication. Therefore, no assumptions can be made on any sort of causality between the publication of the top 10 priorities and the current distribution of studies over the different priority subjects.

Nonetheless, the development of the top 10 priorities using the JLA framework should be seen as a milestone in streamlining IBD research towards better, patient-centred care. The potential benefit of this PSP has gained interest outside the UK, which is illustrated by a similar initiative in Canada resulting in development of a list of priorities in paediatric IBD research. 18

The role of patient and public involvement (PPI) in research has expanded over the last twenty years and has been shown to improve study recruitment and participation, as well as clinical relevance. 19–21 In the UK, a majority of grant applications must include a documented plan for PPI, however, this does not necessarily translate to increased PPI reporting within manuscript submission to medical journals. Indeed, the BMJ reported PPI activity in 0.5% of submitted research papers from 1 June 2013 to 31 May 2014, which then increased to 11% from 1 June 2015 to 31 May 2016 after the introduction of a mandatory policy to include a PPI declaration in the Methods section. 22 Addressing the research priorities most important to patients and clinicians can be achieved by initiatives such the BMJ ’s and other medical journals, in collaboration with funding bodies, research institutions and charitable organisations such as the Crohn’s and colitis UK.

This qualitative review also highlights that many relevant research questions remain unanswered. For instance, further research could investigate how the impact of these PSPs can be evaluated in a standardised way, as well as determine the time frame for revision of the priority ranking. There may be value in creating a centralised registry of all studies classified by priority topic. This study may provide evidence where there remains a relative lack of funding in IBD. This could help raise stakeholder awareness of where investments need to be made in order to address the unmet needs in IBD care.

This study aimed to assess the impact of the 2016 PSP between clinicians, patients and patient-support organisations using the JLA framework for IBD research in the UK. For this purpose, an overview of all clinical studies concerning at least one of the top 10 research priorities in IBD was created. All relevant clinical studies set up and ongoing in the UK since publication of these top 10 research priorities in August 2016 were considered. Of the 63 retrieved industry-sponsored studies, the vast majority focused on development and validation of new medical therapies (priority 1). The distribution of non-industry-sponsored study targets is more spread over the 10 research priorities. However, very few studies focus on patient-reported outcomes. As a consequence, and despite clear progress across multiple domains, it remains debatable to what extent the current landscape of clinical trials in the UK adequately represents the viewpoint of all stakeholders, especially patients.

Contributors: JG: conducted data collection, wrote and reviewed manuscript, submitted manuscript, J-FL: conducted data collection, wrote and reviewed manuscript. J-FL: conducted data collection, wrote and reviewed manuscript. JS: wrote and reviewed manuscript. CWL: developed study, reviewed manuscript, responsible for the overall content. AH: developed study, reviewed manuscript, responsible for the overall content. Both authors contributed equally as first authors. Both authors contributed equally as last authors

Funding: The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

Competing interests: JG, J-FL, LL: no competing interests. JS: was actively involved in the trial 'STOP-Colitis pilot trial protocol: a prospective, open-label, randomised pilot study to assess two possible routes of faecal microbiota transplant delivery in patients with ulcerative colitis. 'CWL: is actively involved in the following trial: 'The PRognostic Effect of Environmental Factors in Crohn’s and Colitis (PREdiCCt)'AL Hart: is actively involved in the following trials:· 'STOP-Colitis pilot trial protocol: a prospective, open-label, randomised pilot study to assess two possible routes of faecal microbiota transplant delivery in patients with ulcerative colitis'· 'A supported online self-management tool for symptoms of fatigue, pain and urgency/incontinence in people with inflammatory bowel disease: the IBD-BOOST trial'.

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This collection highlights the top ten research papers published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications in 2023 according to three criteria*: citations, downloads and Altmetric attention score. The papers highlighted feature authors from around the world and span a wide range of research areas.

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Emotion classification for short texts: an improved multi-label method

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One country with two systems: The characteristics and development of higher education in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area

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The evolutionary mechanism of haze collaborative governance: novel evidence from a tripartite evolutionary game model and a case study in China

• Zhenhua Zhang
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Impact of artificial intelligence on human loss in decision making, laziness and safety in education

• Sayed Fayaz Ahmad
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Green finance, renewable energy development, and climate change: evidence from regions of China

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COVID-19 vaccine communication and advocacy strategy: a social marketing campaign for increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake in South Korea

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Eco-tourism, climate change, and environmental policies: empirical evidence from developing economies

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A bibliometric analysis of cultural heritage research in the humanities: The Web of Science as a tool of knowledge management

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Mechanism of attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control influence the green development behavior of construction enterprises

Social trust, social capital, and subjective well-being of rural residents: micro-empirical evidence based on the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS)

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Ethics and discrimination in artificial intelligence-enabled recruitment practices

• Zhisheng Chen

Profiling low-proficiency science students in the Philippines using machine learning

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Artificial Intelligence in studies—use of ChatGPT and AI-based tools among students in Germany

• Jörg von Garrel

Faculty perceptions of unidentified aerial phenomena

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• Bethany A. Bell

Implications of the POCSO Act and determinants of child sexual abuse in India: insights at the state level

• Shrabanti Maity
• Pronobesh Ranjan Chakraborty

Integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria: their impacts on corporate sustainability performance

• Anrafel de Souza Barbosa
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• Vinícius Fernandes de Souza

The benefits of tourism for rural community development

• Yung-Lun Liu
• Jui-Te Chiang

Influence of motivation on teachers’ job performance

• Joti kumari

The technology, management, and culture of water in ancient Iran from prehistoric times to the Islamic Golden Age

• Masoud Saatsaz
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Wasted GDP in the USA

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The effects of war on Ukrainian research

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Antisemitism is predicted by anti-hierarchical aggression, totalitarianism, and belief in malevolent global conspiracies

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• Louise Katz

The concept of inclusive education from the point of view of academics specialising in special education at Saudi universities

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The functional differentiation of brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) and its ethical implications

• Xiao-yu Sun

Semantic scope of Indus inscriptions comprising taxation, trade and craft licensing, commodity control and access control: archaeological and script-internal evidence

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American cultural regions mapped through the lexical analysis of social media

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Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election

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Develop mathematical skills in children aged 5-6 through movement integration：results from an action research program in china.

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Abstract：In this article, we explored how to integrate movement into the mathematical learning of 5-6-year-old children. Through an action research conducted in a kindergarten in China, three teachers and one researcher collaborated to implement movement integration activities in the teaching process. The study revealed that children's sensitivity to pattern learning tasks in movement integration gradually increased. Children often used strategies such as counting, sorting, analyzing spatial relationships, and geometric shapes to quickly discover and recognize patterns, forming a system of problem-solving strategies. The four stages of pattern learning tasks were found to be a continuous upward process, with 5-6-year-old children often staying in the stage of fine-tuning and expanding patterns for a long time and struggling to transition to higher stages due to their cognitive development level and experience. These movement integration activities provided children with sensory experiences, emotional experiences, and experiences between subjects related to the theme. The conclusion drawn from this study is that this type of teaching can help teachers engage in movement integration (MI) in a way that includes children's subjectivity and behavioral participation in the theme, promoting the development of children's mathematical skills. In the future, we will conduct teaching experiments that integrate physical activity into academic learning in order to further validate the relationship between physical activity and academic performance.

Keywords: Preschool children, Movement integration, Mathematical skills, pattern learning, action research.

Received: 14 Dec 2023; Accepted: 05 Apr 2024.

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Turkey is the most promiscuous country on the planet, according to an amorous analysis of the world’s sexual habits.

The average Turk has slept with more than 14 people according to World Population Review , putting the naughty nation well above the United States.

“The average number of sexual partners can vary significantly from country to country, as cultural norms can have a significant impact on the number of people someone has sex with,” the website declared, saying the figures were comprised after compiling “datasets from multiple third party sources.”

Turkey’s top spot may surprise some, given that more than 99% of residents are Muslim and the country is widely conceived to have traditional views when it comes sex and relationships.

But the list was full of sultry surprises.

Countries thought to have more liberal views on sex, such as Brazil and France, were surprisingly low down on the list.

The average Brazilian has bedded 9 people, putting the nation in 25th place.

France, meanwhile, was far from frisky, clocking in 29th position. Citizens of that country have slept with an average of 8.1 people.

After Turkey, Australia took second place on the lusty list, with the average Aussie having sex with more than 13 people over the course of their lifetime.

Neighboring New Zealand came in at third, followed by Iceland and South Africa.

The United States scored 13th place, with World Population Review saying Americans sleep with an average of 10.7 people over the years.

That has us tied with Canada, which also clocked the exact same stat.

The World Population Review’s data jibes with research released last year by NapLab, which also found that Americans had slept with 10.7 people over the course of their lifetime.

The least promiscuous countries in the World Population Review’s list were China and India, with citizens sleeping with 3.1 and 3.0 people respectively.

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Christopher Hourigan will spearhead innovative cancer solutions at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Center in the nation's capital.

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A globally recognized physician-scientist who studies and treats blood cancer is joining Virginia Tech to lead cancer research in Washington, D.C., said Michael Friedlander, Virginia Tech’s vice president for health sciences and technology and executive director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.

Christopher Hourigan , a senior investigator and chief of the Laboratory of Myeloid Malignancies at the National Institutes of Health, will join Virginia Tech as a professor with the institute and director of its Cancer Research Center in Washington, D.C.

“Dr. Hourigan exemplifies the prototype of a physician-scientist, integrating insights from his patient interactions directly into his fundamental and translational laboratory research,” Friedlander said. “We are extremely enthusiastic to have him join Virginia Tech and become a member of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute team to take on this important new leadership role for our growing cancer research programs in Washington, D.C., and to further strengthen our collaborations with Carilion Clinic, Children’s National Hospital, and other health systems and universities.

The focus of the research effort, known as Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Center - D.C., is to bring basic, translational, clinical, and computational researchers together in the nation’s capital to focus on the shared aim of engineering cancer solutions. 

“Convening top talent like Dr. Hourigan and developing deep and diverse partnerships are key to solving our most complex global challenges,” said Virginia Tech President Tim Sands. “It’s exciting to see our vision for the university advancing across the commonwealth and in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area.” 

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“I also anticipate the innovations and insights that will emerge from Dr. Hourigan and the other Virginia Tech scientists in D.C. collaborating with the institute's cancer research teams in Roanoke as well as with our computer science and engineering colleagues at Virginia Tech’s new Innovation Campus in Alexandria,” Friedlander said.

Research will involve diverse, expert teams and national and international collaborations.

“We have the opportunity to build a new cancer research center from the ground up, focusing on getting talented and highly motivated teams working in innovative new ways to reduce the burden of suffering from cancer in the United States,” Hourigan said. “It's clear we're not doing well enough for people who are dealing with cancer, and this is our chance to come up with new ways to do better.”

The addition of Hourigan will accelerate the university’s initiatives in Washington, D.C. Newly renovated research facilities on the site of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center on the Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus already house Fralin Biomedical Research Institute cancer research scientists Jia-Ray Yu and Kathleen Mulvaney , along with teams of researchers from the Center for Genetic Medicine Research and Rare Disease Institute of Children’s National Hospital.

Precise answers to hard questions

Hourigan’s research focuses on a high-risk form of blood cancer called acute myeloid leukemia, which annually affects about 20,000 Americans. He looks at reasons for why some people survive cancer while others end up dying, even though initially they seem to have had the same response to treatment.

“The person who's newly diagnosed with cancer and has gone through treatment will ask a reasonable question, ‘Well, what about me? I want to know what my actual likelihood of surviving is going to be and are you sure I don’t need more or different treatment?’” Hourigan said. “As an oncologist, those are often hard questions to answer. You have a lot of empathy with the person in front of you and wish we could give better, more personalized, answers. We're strongly focused on the idea that if we had better diagnostic tools to allow a precision medicine approach, we could give doctors and patients a better understanding of exactly where they are now and what’s the best thing for them to do next.”

In addition to his primary appointment with the institute, Hourigan will be a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine .

Hourigan received his medical degree and research doctorates from Oxford University and completed residency and oncology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he was subsequently a practicing physician on the acute leukemia service and faculty member. He is board certified in hematology and medical oncology.

Prior to joining Virginia Tech, Hourigan was a senior investigator, co-director of the Myeloid Malignancies Program, and chief of the Laboratory of Myeloid Malignancies at the National Institutes of Health. 

He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the National Institutes of Health Director’s Challenge Innovation Award, and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He is a fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians.

He looks forward to the task ahead. 

“Virginia Tech has some key strategic advantages,” Hourigan said. “It is nationally known for engineering and computational science, which are going to be increasingly important components of cancer research. I think there's also this sense of energy, innovation, engineering, and teams working across disciplines on hard problems here. And cancer is a hard problem.”

Ultimately, he wants to put cancer researchers out of business.

“I don't want there to be a need for cancer research anymore, whether that happens in my lifetime or the lifetimes of those individuals I train,” Hourigan said.  “The ultimate objective is not to have an industry of cancer research. Our focus has to be on the patient and on working hard to come up with real solutions to hard problems. It is only with research that we’ll be able to do better with cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment tomorrow than we currently can today. We need to have a sense of urgency and purpose because people are counting on us to come up with answers.”

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With this tool, you can write academic research papers efficiently. You do not have to dust endless libraries and pages to write a paper; instead, you can use the AI tool to write educational research papers. We have done this job for you if you need to know which tool to choose. Learn about the top 10 in the article list.

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Semantic Scholar is one of the Top AI tools for academic research widely used by students who are pursuing computer science, biomedical science, and neuroscience. It uses natural language processing to analyze academic papers to find relevant literature.

• Deliver results by understanding the context of the scientific paper.
• Gives you access to over 200 million documents through different data sources and web crawls.
• Auto-generate one-line summaries for each article to choose the one with more in-depth information about the topic
• Semantic readers will offer you comprehension of scientific literature.
• Refine search results for greater efficiency and relevance.
• Continuously improves the tool based on user feedback and provides a personalized user experience.
• The summary has accuracy issues and AI-generated citations.
• It only gives you access to the full text of some papers.

Pricing: Starts at free.

Link: https://www.semanticscholar.org/

Google Scholar is among the best academic research AI tools available to students and scholars. The simple interface has no complex navigation and generates the results by typing the topics.

• Help researchers get updated articles, research papers, literature, and conference papers.
• Highlight the search results with tags like PDF, HTML, and BOOK to search for the results manually.
• Reliable sources to find citations and relevant publications
• Search for specific topics, find relevant searches, and access full-length articles for academic studies.
• Use natural language searching to find academic and literature topics.
• Allow your search for gray literature for systematic reviews.
• The content you find will not be reviewed thoroughly, and there are concerns about source credibility.
• Missed to show significant literature topics.

Pricing: Free

Link : https://scholar.google.com/

Consensus is one of the best AI tools for academic research , and it gathers information from published material and peer-reviewed articles. The tool is helpful for those who want to understand scientific subjects thoroughly.

• Scan peer-reviewed research to offer only trustworthy and accurate research articles.
• Web indexing will use artificial intelligence to give relevant articles.
• Give solutions for scientific queries to help researchers.
• Extract conclusions from peer-reviewed research and provide access to reliable information from famous researchers.
• Natural language processing is used to analyze data and verify the source.
• Generate a summary of research queries and help get information for the early research stage.
• Favour only for STEM and business fields, not humanities and fine arts.
• Not suitable for rigorous and reproducible research works.
• Premium – $8.99/month, billed annually.
• Enterprise – Contact sales for a custom plan.

Link : https://consensus.app/

Trinka is one of the best academic research AI tools , and it is widely used for technical and academic writing. The tool offers 3000 grammar checks and maintains the tone and style of every article.

• Help in preparing precise and quality thesis papers for different projects.
• Identify the grammar, spelling, tone, and style and correct them.
• It makes academic papers compliant with AMA and APA style guides.
• Offer readiness for publication checks and auto-file edits to auto-edit the files.
• Save time in checking grammar while doing academic writing.
• Let you check grammar and correct spelling and offer context suggestions based on your writing style.
• The response time of the tool could be faster, which would cause a hindrance to quick feedback needs.
• It may be challenging to understand the technical jargon.
• Basic : Free.
• Premium : INR 626.67/month.
• Premium Plus : INR 979.16/month.
• Enterprise : Contact sales for a custom plan.

Link : https://www.trinka.ai/

Mendeley is the best academic research too l that can effectively reference research papers. It organizes PDFs, crafts bibliographies, and annotates scholarly documents accurately.

• Offer collaboration features to allow team members to collaborate, share work, and find articles of interest.
• Integrate with standard academic procedures for managing research papers.
• The web importer plugin will let you import all documents in one place
• Search for annotations and notes in PDF documents with ease.
• Offer citation styles for journals and boost citation efficiency.
• Organize and share references for collaborative research.
• Do not make PDF annotations as expected.
• Users commonly face server downtime and syncing errors.

Link: https://www.mendeley.com/

Scholarcy is the best AI tool for academic research to automate reading, summarizing, and extracting critical information from scholarly articles. It will recognize figures and tables and gather critical concepts of a topic.

• Citation features organize and cite the sources used in the research work.
• The tool will highlight critical contributions to the topics you are searching for research without miss
• Create flashcards to help users access research papers with ease.
• Deepen and fasten your understanding of research on the topic you are searching for.
• Summarize the topics of research papers to save time and effort.
• Offer links to the cited resources to access the research material.
• The essay summary may need to be more precise, which may result in plagiarism.
• The AI-generated summary will only cover some of the critical points of the research paper.
• Scholarly plus : $4.99/month.

Link: https://www.scholarcy.com/

Knewton is an AI-driven platform and is an AI-powered research tool for students and scholars to personalize their learning experience. It will generate educational content to match your learning style and needs.

• Change the educational content according to the student’s learning style.
• Analyze the student’s performance and give them strengths and weaknesses in real-time.
• It contains fun and interactive content with videos, games, and puzzles to make learning engaging.
• Courses available in various subjects that help you learn quickly whatever you want.
• Provide you with a personalized learning experience with the help of adaptive learning.
• Offer student interaction to keep cheating at bay by offering different questions to each student.
• The problems in the tool are generic and need to align with the curriculum.
• Offer feedback and flexible assessment options that impact students’ learning.
• Monthly : $10.95+taxes.
• Single-term – $44.95+taxes.
• Altapass – $89.95+taxes.

Link: https://support.knewton.com/s/

Elicit is one of the 10 best AI tools for academic research in 2024 , which is suitable for researchers doing qualitative studies. It can process and analyze data and discover crucial themes, emotions, and recurring patterns.

• Generate summaries and visualizations to interpret the data effectively.
• Automate the process of extracting data and summarizing the findings.
• It contains 200 million research papers and summarizes them in a single sentence.
• It is easy to extract the details of the research paper into a table and easily search for the required information.
• Automate the entire literature review process and save time.
• Find the appropriate papers that you might have missed to search with the keyword.
• Refrain from replacing critical thinking and judgment of humans while evaluating the quality of the paper.
• Complex questions would need deep analysis and synthesis.
• Plus : $10/month.

Link : https://elicit.com/

IBM Watson is one of the free AI tools for academic research that will use Watson’s natural language processing and Watson’s discovery to find relevant articles. It streamlines the research process by thoroughly analyzing complicated datasets.

• Use NLP and other AI technologies to produce quick insights.
• They are used across different industries, such as finance, education, and healthcare, to provide relevant articles.
• Perform data extraction, sentiment, and language analysis to smoothen the research process.
• Find insights from unstructured data.
• Offer detailed analysis of complicated data through AI capabilities.
• Share data securely and customize computational power based on user needs.
• The tool is challenging for beginners and needs extra training.
• Difficulty in navigating through the dashboard due to its design.
• Lite : free.
• Plus : Starts at $140/month.

Link: https://www.ibm.com/watson

Scite is one of the best AI tools for academic research to help users research scholarly articles and check for citations. NLP and machine learning techniques assess the references’ dependency and check the research’s quality and impact.

• We offer visualizations and metrics to help you learn the citation landscape and find a specific topic.
• It contains articles, datasets, preprints, and citation statements for in-depth research.
• The innovative citation feature lets you check how to cite a particular publication.
• Create a dashboard to search for the citation statements and visualize the research.
• Offer contextual information for citations indicating the claim contradiction.
• Give you access to 1.2 billion citation statements, offering you access to draft academic papers.
• It cannot be integrated with editors like LaTex or used by mathematics and computer science researchers.
• The database only has some scientific articles you want.
• Monthly plan : $20/month.
• Yearly plan : $12/month and total $144/year.

Link: https://scite.ai/

There are some factors which you must consider while choosing the best AI tools for academic research :

Objective: You need to know the aim you want to achieve using this tool. You can use this for research, generating images, and creating textural content.

Purpose : You must go through the tool’s official site to understand its functionalities and choose the one that serves you better.

Learning curve: The complicated tool will take away much of your time, so choose the self-explanatory one.

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Out of all the AI tools for academic research , consensus AI is the ideal choice for many educational researchers. It helps you find scientific-based search results with ease. It takes the help of AI to acquire information from different sources and accurate ones. The tool uses machine learning algorithms to analyze enormous datasets, make the search process quick, and extract results accurately.

The best AI tools for academic research are game-changers in the research world. These tools have come in handy for many researchers and scholars to find the relevant information for the topic they are researching with them and get a summary of the issues in no time.

Using the tools, you can reduce academic research stress and do the work briskly. You can improve through these academic research AI tools by writing better theses. We have discussed the top 10 that let you quickly work efficiently and access relevant information.

How is AI used in academic research?

AI will streamline the research process, help you analyze data, review academic papers, extract information from vast datasets, and gain insights.

Are there AI tools that can summarize academic papers?

Yes, many AI tools will help you summarize the data quickly and do fact-checking. It also extracts relevant information based on the given topic for you.

How will AI tools help you through the academic and literature review process?

AI tools will help you find a suitable theme, suggest relevant papers, and summarize complex texts into simple lines for easier understanding. It will be your research companion while writing research papers.

Are AI tools easy for researchers with limited technical knowledge to use?

Everyone can use the tool for academic research due to the user-friendly interface. This makes it accessible to non-tech users, too. They get used to the tool in no time.

Will AI generate research hypotheses?

Yes, the AI will thoroughly analyze the data, find the pattern, and develop the hypothesis based on the information available.

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