I also find Web of Science RA confusing as heck, besides the RAG search it seems there are like a ton of other tools/workflows available. There's "seminal papers", topic maps, Co-citation map (not same thing), topic over markness models, top authors all with diff visualizations. It's really a mess - ThreadSky

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aarontay.bsky.social • 4 days ago

I also find Web of Science RA confusing as heck, besides the RAG search it seems there are like a ton of other tools/workflows available. There's "seminal papers", topic maps, Co-citation map (not same thing), topic over markness models, top authors all with diff visualizations. It's really a mess

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aarontay.bsky.social•4 days ago

Add the fact that WOS RA seems to be able to recognize all sort of fields in natural language, not just pub year, but affiliation, country, journal issue vol, doi etc, citation counts etc. Look at the Types of questions WOSRA can answer https://webofscience.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/31437630410129-Web-of-Science-Research-Assistant#h_01JGKZK0Q4JYJ3T9DHD5KNPCMW:~:text=Types%20of%20questions%20WOSRA%20can%20answer%C2%A0

aarontay.bsky.social•4 days ago

while it sounds nice to be able to ask for papers on topic X by authors from affiliation Y with citations > Z, it also means you can accidently trigger a workflow you didn't expect. I saw that in a demo where one query gets you a normal RAG answer another slightly diff gets the top author workflow

aarontay.bsky.social•4 days ago

WOS RA competitor Scopus AI has similar ideas of having specific workflows, but they are more restrained offering , "concept maps", "topic experts", "emerging themes". The topic expert like WOS top author can be hit or miss, but generally i find it less confusing since they always offered

aarontay.bsky.social•4 days ago

and i dont think Scopus AI natural language search can parse half as many fields as WOS RA can. In fact, I think most of the usual suspects will parse pub year maybe..and thats its

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