RESEARCH CATEGORY

Literature Search & Discovery

Find papers, trace citations, and map research fields. The database currently includes 10 tools in this category.

Literature Search & Discovery

Google Scholar

A broad scholarly search service for articles, theses, books, patents, and citation records across disciplines.

Free
scholarly searchcitations
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Literature Search & Discovery

Semantic Scholar

A free research discovery service from Ai2 that supports paper search, citation exploration, and programmatic access.

Free
research discoverycitation graph
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Literature Search & Discovery

Consensus

A research search service that retrieves evidence from scholarly papers and presents structured responses to research questions.

Freemium
evidence searchresearch questions
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Literature Search & Discovery

Elicit

A research assistant for finding papers, extracting study information, and comparing evidence in structured tables.

Freemium
paper searchevidence extraction
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Literature Search & Discovery

Connected Papers

A visual discovery tool that builds a graph of related research from a seed paper.

Freemium
paper graphrelated work
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Literature Search & Discovery

ResearchRabbit

A literature discovery tool for exploring connections among papers, authors, and citation networks.

Free
citation networkvisual discovery
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Literature Search & Discovery

scite

A citation analysis service that shows whether later papers support, mention, or contrast with a cited claim.

Paid
citation contextevidence assessment
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Literature Search & Discovery

Dimensions

A linked research information platform covering publications, grants, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents.

Freemium
research intelligencegrants
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Literature Search & Discovery

The Lens

A search and analysis platform that connects scholarly works with patents and biological sequence information.

Free
patentsscholarly search
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Literature Search & Discovery

OpenAlex

An open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and their relationships.

Open sourceOpen source
open dataAPI
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