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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium
Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
2.1M visits/mo
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ResearchRabbit
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free-first literature discovery tool that visually maps citation networks and related papers to speed up systematic reviews.
1.2M visits/mo79 saves
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Scholar AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI research search tool for peer-reviewed papers with citation management, now integrated into Jenni AI's writing workspace.
156K visits/mo
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Open Knowledge Maps
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Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.
113K visits/mo1.1K saves
Pricing
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom
Free: $0/month (unlimited searches across 310M+ articles)
ResearchRabbit+ Annual: $10/month
ResearchRabbit+ Monthly: $12.5/month
Basic: $9.99/month (50 credits/month, 9TB uploads)
Premium: $18.99/month (unlimited GPT & Copilot use)
Credits: $4.99 (25 credits)
Credits: $9.99 (50 credits)
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Core features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦Citation and author network exploration from a seed paper
- ✦Interactive visualizations of how topics relate over time
- ✦Unlimited library organization and collection sharing
- ✦Zotero integration for syncing saved papers
- ✦Up to 300 seed articles supported on the paid tier
- ✦Alerts for new related research
- ✦Search across millions of peer-reviewed papers
- ✦Agentic AI chat that consults research and uploaded PDFs
- ✦Auto-citation in over 2,600 citation styles
- ✦One-click Zotero/Mendeley library import with metadata and PDFs
- ✦ScholarAI GPT available in the ChatGPT GPT Store
- ✦Developer API for integrating research search
- ✦AI-generated visual maps of research topics
- ✦Clusters papers into themes
- ✦Open-access resource discovery
- ✦Open-source and nonprofit
- ✦Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
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Use cases
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Building a systematic literature review efficiently
- →Discovering research gaps in an unfamiliar field
- →Tracking new publications related to saved papers
- →Visualizing how a body of research has evolved
- →Finding and citing academic sources for a paper
- →Chatting with AI about uploaded research PDFs
- →Importing an existing reference library for a new project
- →Building custom apps on top of academic search via API
- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems
- →Researching topics using AI-driven search results.
- →Accessing enhanced features with a Pro subscription.
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