R Discovery 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Wondering if R Discovery is right for your organization?

Our Data Discovery Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less.

On this page

Overview
Pricing and Plans
User Reviews

Overview

R Discovery

4.4

(13)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About R Discovery

R Discovery is a research platform that provides access to over 115 million academic research papers for free. The platform caters to students, researchers, and academics looking to improve their literature review process.

The platform features a personalized recommendation engine that suggests relevant papers based on the user's interests and reading history. This allows for a customized research experience where users can seamlessly discover papers in their field. R Discovery also offers premium features like audio papers, translation tools, collaboration features, auto-syncing across devices and multi-feed support to further enhance research reading.

R Discovery indexes over 40 million open access papers, 8 million research summaries and highlights, 2 million pre-prints, and 32,000 journals. It is available as a mobile app on iOS and Android and has been downloaded over 25 million times across 190 countries globally. The app aims to accelerate academic research discovery by delivering the latest, most relevant content to users in a simple, personalized feed. With its huge catalog of content and smart recommendation engine, R Discovery strives to make research reading efficient...

R Discovery Screenshots

R Discovery Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Connect with an advisor for pricing

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

Confused about pricing? We've got you covered.

Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates.

R Discovery Features

Popular features found in Data Discovery
Data Connectors
Multiple Data Sources
Self Service Data Preparation
Visual Analytics

R Discovery User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

54%

38%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.1

Gayatri R.

Verified reviewer

Research

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed February 2022

The "nitty-gritty" search engine

My second best option for free access to publications that can be filtered to the minutest keywords.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I can customise search, specifically to keywords, that are highly specific. Also it comes free and thats a bonus.

Cons:

Notifications on new publications specific to keywords search are not available to users. My institute is also not added in the "access full text" option (I have notified the admin and action is awaited)

Vendor Response

Thank you for sharing your review of R Discovery. We are glad to hear that you're finding it useful. We appreciate your suggestion and are looking to incorporate it as soon as possible. Please keep sharing your suggestions as they help us improve.

Replied March 2022

Yerson C.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2024

Practical Approach for Data Management

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

R Discovery ensure there is accurate data integration solution, which helps businesses value every analytical process.

Cons:

R Discovery has a defined form in making every data management straightforward.

Mahesh N.

Verified reviewer

Design

201-500 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Reviewed March 2022

My review

Good

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software is good. Supports with journal articles.

Cons:

It should provide facility to download journal articles.

Reasons for choosing R Discovery

Good

Vendor Response

Thanks so much for the feedback. Open access articles can be downloaded for free on R Discovery. To download articles published in subscription-based journals, you or your institution would need to have a subscription with the journal. However, we are working to increase the number of open access publications on our platform.

Replied April 2022

Saranath P.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed March 2022

Powerful search tool but lacks some features

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I found the R Discovery mobile and web apps to be well designed and user-friendly. I use R Discovery to search for scientific papers relevant to my area of research. As a literature survey tool, the R Discovery platform seems to have a comprehensive database of scientific publications. The topic-based search provides an exhaustive list of relevant papers and the platform is surprisingly good at analyzing my preferences and feedback to customize my feed.

Cons:

I found it quite difficult to narrow down the search results, because the R Discovery platform does not have any filters such as Year of Publication (e.g., to check for papers published in the last 2 years) and Type of Publication (e.g., Article, Review, Book chapter). Although the search tool does learn from my feedback, it is time-consuming to provide it because, sometimes, the results run into thousands of papers.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for your review. We have noted your feedback on the limited search filter options. We're in the process of gradually expanding our filter options on the app. We have recently added the option to filter by author names, journal names, and open access. We also have a 'Duration' filter that can help you filter papers based on time since publication. We will definitely use your input as a guideline for future product updates.

Replied March 2022

Jesse N.

Verified reviewer

Oil & Energy

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed February 2022

Excellent App for Researchers

Excellent. I would give it 90% as marks. 10% is for a room for improvement

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Excellent and organized research papers. I always get my daily email for the top read. I am into Geothermal. Machine Learning and Power System.

Cons:

Paid paper from other sources. Hence not able to access the papers.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review. We are so glad you find R Discovery useful. Your feedback motivates us to improve the app!

Replied February 2022

Njugi M.

Verified reviewer

Civic & Social Organization

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed March 2022

Global goals

As an environmental activist,climate change need a radical approach and as a participant in world resource institute prize for cities R discovery couldn't have come at a better time its a breakthrough because knowledge is immortal.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

While living in these turbulent time and the need for us to find solutions to our planetary problems and the software has really helped in research on various topics that requires urgent and sustainable solutions in making the world a better place.

Cons:

Although the content is insightful it lacks the photography captions that keeps the reader entertained.

Jonas D.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed March 2022

Incredible app

My experience with R discovery is great. I has simplified my life as a researcher. I helps me identify quickly the right articles. It is a time saving!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the recommendations for articles, the summary of the articles and the user friendliness.

Cons:

It can include the option of articles that fully available and those that are not.

Vendor Response

Thank you for the feedback, Jonas! The articles recommended on your Home screen have flags to indicate whether they are open access or not. Besides, one of the search filters, Flags, also allows you to choose to filter only open access articles. Your Explore screen has a section called "Read full papers" where you can read full text papers from your selected topics. If you have any questions, do write to us at discovery@researcher.life or set up a call at http://bit.ly/3sEAzFU.

Replied April 2022

Verified

Reviewer

Capital Markets

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Reviewed March 2022

Review- "R Discovery"

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

R discovery is a great platform wherein you get most updated research in several diversified sectors with ease. You can get over research paper, articles, academic journal in effective and efficient way.

Cons:

I would suggest that app interface and dashboard has the scope of improvement. Also there is a need to add more relevant topic and areas where we can get research papers and journals.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate your kind words regarding our app. We are interested in hearing your thoughts regarding what can be improved. Would you mind dropping in an email to us at discovery@researcher.life? We can also meet you at any time of your convenience - you can choose your preferred slot here: http://bit.ly/3sEAzFU

Replied April 2022

Sagar P.

Verified reviewer

Import and Export

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed April 2022

Making an Improvement : Better For everyone

Bettering in Customer relationship.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I don't have to give more time for research because it makes my data availability simpler.

Cons:

Boring and Irrelevant content makes me misguided sometimes.

Negin G.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed March 2022

Focus on what matters with R Discovery

I am doing practical research and it helps save time on search engines looking for research topics and articles. It has been very helpful to be recommended similar topics of interest by R Discovery as well.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I love that it recommends different articles according what I have previously searched. It keeps me updated on my research topics.

Cons:

I haven't had any trouble using it and the features are just enough.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for the great feedback! We are glad to hear that you like using R Discovery. We truly appreciate your kind words!

Replied April 2022

Showing 1 - 10 of 13 Reviews

See All Reviews