Users can apply specific syntax to refine searches in COVID Scholar:
* **Quotes**: Search for a specified multi-word phrase.
* **Plus sign (+)**: Specify that the result must include the search term.
* **Minus sign (-)**: Specify that the result must exclude the search term.
* **Parentheses ()**: Specify that the search matches any of the terms inside (OR logic).
* **Field name:** Search for publications in specific fields.

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More senior Researchgate members who are experts in a particular field of science volunteer to contribute and recommend publications to other researchers to read and discuss.  

Researchgate's key contributor feature

A feature that helps researchers to connect and collaborate on COVID-19 research.
Helps search for researchers by location, discipline, location, career level, and skills.

Researchgate Expert Finder 

Experienced members of Researchgate who are experts in a particular field (e.g. epidemiology, ecology, virology, etc) who help make recommendations about what content should be displayed. They do not have the ability to influence the visibility of the content. Also, they do not have the ability to review content that violated Researchgate's policies. 
However, they do have the ability to limit the number of submissions a member can make within a topic area.

Researchgate Community Moderator

Members can post questions and start discussions with other members in their research community. Facilitates the flow of knowledge and progress on one's research 

Researchgate Posting Questions and Discussions

Collabvoid sorts its papers by creating categories (e.g. transmission, treatment, prevention, etc.) Each category has a brief description about it including the total number of papers. It also includes the number of papers that were added within the past seven days and within the past 30 days

Collabvoid Paper Categories

Keyword Search: Finds papers that have matching keywords in their title, abstract, or authors.
- Not be able to generalize a search query

Semantic Search: Recognizes connections between words and finds similarities between papers and the search query.
- Searches for previously unknown research fields using queries in the form of a sentence or question.


Collabvoid: Semantic Search v. Keyword Search

- Lists features and functions that it currently has and will include in the future
- Details where their data comes from 
- Details how uncommon features are used

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Users can select the peer review filter to view publications that have been reviewed or ones that have not been reviewed

COVID Scholar Peer Review Filter

Collabvoid's research map feature displays and categorizes research papers by their location across the globe, utilizing countries, regions, and cities of publication. When a user selects a specific location, the map shows all papers published from that area.

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