Literature Review Tools

• Unriddle.AI: An AI tool for literature reviews that simplifies reading, extracts key insights, enhances writing, and guides you through complex topics with ease.
• ScienceOpen: A free search engine for research papers with citation metrics, altmetrics, and a user-friendly design for exploring scholarly works.
• Semantic Scholar: An AI-powered platform for discovering and analyzing academic papers, offering deep insights into scholarly literature.
• SciSpace: A research tool with 270+ million papers and an AI assistant, Copilot, providing summaries, explanations, and answers to aid comprehension.
• PICO Portal: An AI tool designed to streamline systematic reviews by predicting the most relevant articles based on your criteria, reducing the number of studies you need to screen.
• Elicit: An AI research assistant that helps in literature review by finding relevant papers, summarizing findings, and extracting key information to answer specific research questions.
• Research Rabbit: A tool that allows researchers to create collections of papers and visualize the connections between them, aiding in the discovery of related work and the development of comprehensive literature reviews. 
• Consensus: An AI-powered search engine that finds and summarizes research papers, helping users quickly understand the consensus in scientific literature on a given topic.

Free Courses on Research Methods, Manuscript Writing, and Publishing

• Understanding Research Methods By Coursera
• Write and Publish a Research Paper: Complete Guide By Adam Academy
• Fundamentals of manuscript preparation By Elsvier Research Academy
• Writing skills By Elsvier Research Academy
• Fundamentals of Publishing by Elsevier Research Academy

Find Journer

• JANE (Journal/Article Name Estimator): A tool that helps you find the most relevant journals for your research based on article titles or abstracts.
• Clarivate Master Journal List: A comprehensive list of journals indexed by Clarivate, offering essential information for journal selection.
• Scopus Journal Comparison: Allows you to compare journals indexed in Scopus based on various metrics like impact factor and citation counts.
• Jot (Journal Targeter): A tool to help you identify the best journals for submitting your manuscript based on keywords or topics.
• Elsevier Journal Finder: Helps you find Elsevier journals that match your research topics and manuscript.
• Taylor & Francis Journal Suggester: This tool suggests journals from Taylor & Francis based on the title and abstract of your manuscript.
• Think. Check. Submit: A resource to help you evaluate the trustworthiness of journals and avoid predatory publishers.
• Wiley Journal Finder: A tool that helps you find Wiley journals by matching your manuscript with relevant journals.
• Cabell's: Provides a directory of journals and their evaluation metrics, helping you find suitable journals for your research.
• Journal Evaluation Tool: A tool for evaluating journals based on multiple performance metrics and journal reputation.
• Sage Journal Recommender: Suggests Sage journals that are a good fit for your research topic using your manuscript title and abstract.

R Package for Data analysis and Visualisation

• dplyr: A package for data manipulation, offering functions like filtering, selecting, and summarizing data. Part of the tidyverse.
• tidyr: Focuses on tidying data, such as reshaping and separating columns. Works well with other tidyverse packages. 
• Tidyverse: A collection of R packages (e.g., ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, purrr) for consistent data analysis and visualization.
• gtsummary & gt: Used for creating customizable summary tables for data frames and statistical models. 
• ggplot2: A powerful visualization package implementing the "grammar of graphics" to create complex plots. 
• hrbrthemes: Enhances ggplot2 plots with additional themes, color palettes, and customization options. 
• RColorBrewer & viridis: Provide color palettes for data visualization, ideal for maps and charts. 
• Heatmaply: Creates interactive heatmaps with customization options.

Free Courses and Tutorials for R Programming

• Data Analysis with R Programming By Coursera
• Introduction to R Programming for Data Science By Coursera
• Data Visualization & Dashboarding with R Specialization By Coursera
• Expressway to Data Science: R Programming and Tidyverse Specialization By Coursera
• Statistical Analysis with R for Public Health Specialization By Coursera

Data Science Tools 

• NumPy: Foundation for scientific computing, offering support for multidimensional arrays and mathematical operations.
• Pandas: Simplifies data wrangling and analysis, providing powerful tools for handling structured data.
• Matplotlib: Used for creating static, basic data visualizations.
• Seaborn: Enhances Matplotlib with advanced statistical visualizations and attractive aesthetics.
• Plotly: Enables interactive and dynamic data visualizations.
• researchpy: data and performs statistical tests efficiently.
• Dask: Handles big data analysis with parallel computing support.
• scikit-learn: A versatile library for machine learning, offering tools for classification, regression, and clustering.
• scikit-image: Provides tools for image manipulation, especially useful in life sciences.

Free Courses and Tutorials for Data Science 

• Data Analysis with Python By Coursera
• Python for Data Science, AI & Development By Coursera
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) By Coursera
• Machine Learning Specialization By Coursera
• AI in Healthcare Specialization By Coursera

Biological Illustratol Tools

• BioArt: Hosted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), BioArt provides over 2,000 science and medical visuals, including vectors, icons, and brushes, created by professional illustrators. 
• Bioicon: Bioicon offers a collection of high-quality biological icons and illustrations to enhance scientific presentations and educational materials.
• BioRender: BioRender's scientific illustration software includes an activity sheet with editable lab icons, enabling users to create publication-quality figures using pre-made icons and templates. 
• SciDraw: SciDraw is a platform that offers a variety of scientific drawings, including vectors of cells, animals, and laboratory equipment, contributed by the scientific community.
• Servier Medical Art (SMART): It offers over 3,000 free, high-quality medical illustrations suitable for publications and presentations. The collection encompasses various medical specialties, including anatomy, cellular biology, and general medical items.
• Reactome: Reactome is a free, open-source, curated, and peer-reviewed pathway database that provides insights into molecular processes and pathways in human biology.
• LabIcons: LabIcons offers free drawings of laboratory objects to improve knowledge communication in science and education, including clip arts of microcentrifuge tubes, plasticware, instruments, equipment, and glassware.