Smart Suggestions Article Discovery: A Tutorial

Keeping up with relevant literature can be time-consuming and overwhelming in academia. That’s why we built ResearchDock’s Smart Suggestions feature — an intelligent system that suggests papers based on the keywords inferred from your project. It's like having a personal research assistant helping you stay on top of the most relevant work in your field.

In this tutorial, we’ll walk through how to use this feature effectively to find, manage, and organize research papers as your project changes.

What Is It?

The Smart Suggestions tool in ResearchDock analyzes your project’s title, objectives, and notes to infer relevant keywords. Using those keywords, it recommends recent and high-impact research papers from trusted databases (we use Semantic Scholar). You can:

• View suggested articles in real-time
• Add or remove keywords to fine-tune results
• Save papers to revisit later
• Automatically improve future recommendations as you save papers

How to Use the Feature

1. Open Your Project Workspace

Go to your project dashboard and on the right-hand side, you’ll see a tab called “Smart Suggestions.”

2. Review the Inferred Keywords

At the top of the page, you’ll see a list of keywords that ResearchDock has inferred from your project. These drive the article suggestions.

3. Refine Your Keywords

Click the ✖ next to any keyword to remove it, or use the “Add Keyword” button to include new terms that better reflect your research focus.

💡 Why This Matters: Fine-tuning your keyword list can significantly increase the relevance of your article recommendations.

4. Explore Suggested Articles

Scroll down to see papers that match your keywords. You can click each one to view a summary, abstract, or external link to the full article.

5. Save Articles for Later

Found something interesting? Click the “Save” button next to the paper to bookmark it.

📁 Saved articles appear in the “Saved Papers” section of your project, so you can come back to them anytime.

6. Let the System Learn From You

Here’s the magic: the articles you save help us improve keyword inference. As you interact more with papers — by saving, removing, or updating keywords — the system gets smarter and adapts to your interests.

✅ Best Practices

• Check suggestions regularly. We update them as your project evolves.
• Be proactive. Manually adding even one or two precise keywords can dramatically improve quality.
• Use saved papers in other tools. Saved articles are accessible across your project — whether you’re drafting a manuscript or preparing a presentation.

🚀 Ready to Try It?

Jump into your project and start exploring. Whether you're beginning a literature review or tracking new papers in your field, this feature is here to simplify your workflow.