What is PubChase?
PubChase is a free web-based recommendation engine that helps researchers discover relevant scientific publications. It was developed by researchers at Microsoft and launched in 2020.
Here's how PubChase works: Users sign up with a Microsoft, Google, or Facebook account and import their publication history. PubChase analyzes a researcher's publications, journals they publish in, references, citations, and academic genealogy to build a researcher profile. It then scours literature databases to find similar papers that may be of interest.
Key features of PubChase include:
- Personalized paper recommendations based on a user's academic profile and publication history
- Ability to mark papers as 'of interest' to further refine future recommendations
- Full-text and open access filtering options
- Pagination for easily browsing search results
- One-click importing of papers to reference managers like EndNote
By quickly surfacing relevant yet overlooked papers, PubChase aims to help accelerate scientific discovery and literature review efficiency for academics and researchers across disciplines.
EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, BibDesk, Qiqqa, JabRef, ReadCube Papers, wizdom.ai, EasyBib, PDF Search, Weava, Crossref, RefWorks, ACS ChemWorx, Droideley are some alternatives to PubChase.