Useful Tools for Academic Fools#

Welcome to the Academic Research and Writing Tools Page! Here you’ll find a selection of useful tools to help you with your academic research and writing. Our collection includes a variety of free online resources, such as citation generators, grammar checkers and writing guides. We also provide helpful advice on how to use these tools to enhance your academic work. So take a look around!

Find Research#

How to find information and research papers about your topic

Google Scholar
JSTOR for exploring Papers
SciHub for downloading research Papers
- and corresponding Telegram Bot
Research-Rabbit for finding Papers based on AI
Wolfram Alpha for general questions and solving math

Find research/sources for Economics:

excellecnt Overview of different data sources: Library Yale

good aggregates for deveolepd countries: MacroVar

Economic Research: IDEAS RePec

Managing / Doing Research#

How to save and manage references and papers to later integrate them into your text

Scholarcy for auto-summary of papers
Zotero for Cataloging research
- with BetterBibTex plugin
Scite : find out if Citations are supported by other research
Hypothesis: annotate research collaboratively

Do Research in Economics:

Statistical Analysis in R: RStudio

Packages for Working with Data: Tidyverse

Economic Packages: EconR

Statistical Analysis in Python: JupyterLab

Package for Data: Pandas, Plotly

DONT YOU DARE USE EXCEL: one of multiple reasons

Writing#

Software

TeX:
- Texifier: writing on MacOS
- OverLeaf: Collaborating
Markdown:
- Zettlr: writing Markdown
- Quarto:converting to other formats
Other:
- SciFlow: Online-Editor, gesponst von Bib Halle
- NEVER WORD! [1]

Helpers

PaperPal : writing suggestions
Duden Mentor: correcting erros (DE)
DeepL: the one and only translator

Writing in Economics:

General Structure of a Paper: How-To

for Writing interweaved with Analysis: RStudio