As 2024 approaches its finale, at Paperpal we’re overwhelmed with the love and trust you’ve placed in us as your all-in-one writing assistant, leaving us with a deep sense of pride. The year has been marked by some important milestones and achievements, and it’s all thanks to our growing user community of 1.5M+ academics around the world.
Here is a chance to rewind and revisit the milestones and magic that made 2024 truly special. So, grab your coffee, let’s recap our journey together through Paperpal’s 2024 in Review!
The Paperpal blog attracted over 1,003,600 new users in 2024. Our blog readers spanned undergraduates to Masters and PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, professors, and more experienced researchers.
The blog attracted readers from 125 countries across 5 continents this year, showing the reach and breadth of our content. The top 10 countries for readership were India, Philippines, the United States, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Pakistan, Malaysia, South Africa, Canada, and Indonesia.
The host of articles regularly updated on the Paperpal blog were read by busy academics on the go or when they needed quick help with their research and writing. Over 53% read the blog on mobile, while 46% browsed articles on their laptops, and just 1% reading on their tablets.
The Paperpal blog garnered over 132 million impressions on online search engines like Google, with several articles bookmarked by readers. For example, from the 1M+ users who read Paperpal blog this year, over 256,323 individuals who searched for ‘research methodology’ on Google were introduced to and loved our detailed article, ‘What is Research Methodology? Definition, Types, and Examples.‘
The Paperpal blog readers loved the in-depth guides on academic writing, crafting different types of essays, and tips to simplifying literature reviews. The addition of useful advice on how to maximize Paperpal AI’s potential and enhance their workflows further increased their popularity. Here are our top 5 read articles of the year:
Paperpal readers spent 3,600 seconds, or an hour, every month reading and engaging with the articles on our blog. This points to their dedication and growing interest in continuous learning, staying updated, and enhancing their academic writing skills.
Building deep trust requires surpassing expectations. While our users were already impressed with Paperpal’s AI writing assistant, they envisioned a more comprehensive academic writing toolkit. We heard you and introduced brand new features to the toolkit. Here’s a glimpse of Paperpal’s feature releases in 2024.
In February 2024, Paperpal introduced its online plagiarism checker, expanding its AI writing toolkit to help academics avoid accidental plagiarism by running their writing through this essential check before submission. The plagiarism checker, which scans your writing against an extensive database of over 99 billion webpages, empowers users to identify red flags in their writing and refine their work to maintain academic integrity. Users can get a free plagiarism check or opt for the detailed report to submit with confidence.
In April 2024, Paperpal added a Research feature to enable authors to search, write, and cite all in one place. This AI reference finder was built to save time and effort for academics who have to switch between multiple AI research tools to find factual answers and credible sources to verify or build their arguments as they write. By offering science backed insights from a growing repository of 250M+ research articles, Paperpal simplifies this fragmented process, reducing writing distractions and delays.
In June 2024, Paperpal launched Predictive Writing suggestions, an exciting feature that allows users to transform ideas into words faster than ever before. This powerful predictive writing tool can build on your ideas and arguments by offering multiple context-specific writing suggestions, which users could review and refer to, empowering academics to write better, faster. This intuitive feature was especially loved by non-native English speakers!
In August 2024, Paperpal introduced its citation generator that lets you cite sources accurately in 10,000+ citation styles. An extension of the AI reference finder, available under the Research feature, this trusted tool allows you to generate in-text citations and references instantly, with an option to change citation style across your entire document in minutes. Now, with just a few clicks, Paperpal users can search for articles, save to your in-built citation library, and format citations in the correct style.
In August 2024, Paperpal launched the AI Review feature, which could act as a virtual mentor and research coach for busy academics. No more waiting for your supervisor or PI to check and offer feedback, Paperpal AI Review can analyze your work and suggest tailored feedback and practical suggestions to elevate your writing. The best part is that this can be used at any stage, whether you’re just ready with a first draft or polishing your final article!
Come October 2024, and Paperpal was ready to unveil its expanded AI writing assistant, with additional capabilities and more comprehensive support. With Paperpal Write, users can now upload their notes and use that as reference to write faster, tell Paperpal what they want to write with custom instructions, or simply get quick suggestions by using the built-in writing prompts. With this, Paperpal became the only AI assistant you need that will write with you, ensuring you deliver authentic, high-quality content every time.
In November 2024, Paperpal introduced its new Overleaf Chrome Extension, built to help you edit LaTeX documents and perfect your scientific writing. Academics using Overleaf often face the challenge of using third-party tools to proofread LaTeX documents without disrupting the formatting. Paperpal for Overleaf addresses this challenge by offering free language suggestions and grammar checks directly within the Overleaf editor, all while preserving the integrity of your LaTeX code and formatting.
In December 2024, Paperpal wrapped up the year by adding the Chat PDF feature to its all-in-one writing toolkit. This allows users to upload any PDF and instantly extract insights, summarize content, understand complex concepts, and even speed up the tedious note-taking process by organizing and managing references. Our team is already working on new capabilities that will take your literature reading and note-taking process up another notch!
Looking ahead, 2025 is brimming with new possibilities. We can’t wait to unveil exciting new features, introduce more folks to everything that Paperpal can do, and engage in even deeper conversations with all of you. As we bid adieu to 2024, we wish you not just a Happy New Year, but one that brings with it academic success and unbridled productivity.
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