Scientific and professional research and writing academic papers have always been a challenge for
people with experience and for those who are just starting with these activities. Nowadays, when
the digital transformation in this field has reached its full bloom, we have various digital tools at our
disposal to help us in research and writing academic papers in an organized way. Digital technologies
have created a new ecosystem for research, both for searching and accessing information as well as
for writing with the possibility of mutual collaboration among authors. The paper highlights the
major categories of digital tools and describes the most important ones in more detail. Digital tools
help authors throughout the research process and in writing academic papers. These include thinking
about an idea, taking notes from the literature, citing, adding graphical elements, and collaborating
with colleagues in real time. A new paradigm in writing academic papers with the help of artificial
intelligence was briefly discussed, which includes the use of language models of natural language, and
text processing with a critical review of the ethics of using these tools was briefly discussed.
The research was conducted on the use of digital tools in two populations: teachers and students. The
obtained research results were presented and discussed, after which appropriate conclusions were
drawn
