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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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Semantic Scholar
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Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.

7.9M visits/mo13K 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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Connected Papers
✓ verifiedFreemium

Widely used visual tool for exploring related academic papers.

873K 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

No public pricing

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)
Free: USD 0
Academic: USD 3 /month*
Business: USD 10 /month*
Academic Group: 3 USD / seat / month*
Business Group: 10 USD / seat / month*
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Core features
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • AI-powered semantic search across 236M+ papers
  • Semantic Reader for augmented, contextual paper reading
  • Free public API for paper search and metadata
  • Author and topic discovery
  • Citation graph exploration
  • Beta program for new features
  • 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
  • Visual graph generation of related academic papers
  • Discovery of prior and derivative works
  • Identification of important and relevant papers
  • Exploration of research field dynamics
  • AI-generated visual maps of research topics
  • Clusters papers into themes
  • Open-access resource discovery
  • Open-source and nonprofit
  • Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
Use cases
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • Researchers searching scientific literature across disciplines
  • Developers building applications on top of scholarly data via the API
  • Students exploring citation networks for a topic
  • Librarians and academics needing free literature discovery tools
  • 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
  • Getting a visual overview of a new academic field
  • Ensuring no key papers are missed in a field with a large volume of new publications
  • Creating a bibliography for a thesis
  • Discovering relevant prior and derivative works
  • Get an overview of a research field
  • Find relevant papers faster
  • Identify key concepts in the literature
  • Embed discovery tools in library systems
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