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Futurwise
✓ verifiedFreemium
Curated intelligence app delivering verified, attributed human analysis across tech, climate, health and mobility.
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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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Rayyan
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-assisted systematic literature review platform for research teams handling screening, deduplication, extraction, and PRISMA reporting.
1.1M visits/mo
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Connected Papers
✓ verifiedFreemium
Widely used visual tool for exploring related academic papers.
873K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 (3 active reviews, 2 free reviewers)
Essential: $8.33/month billed quarterly
Advanced: $13.33/month billed quarterly (9 active reviews, 10 free reviewers)
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
- ✦Curated intelligence across four domains
- ✦Tiered source channels from news to research
- ✦Verified and attributed human insight
- ✦Daily updates on fast-changing topics
- ✦Mobile and web access
- ✦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
- ✦Reference import, organization, and deduplication across large libraries
- ✦AI-powered relevance predictions to prioritize screening
- ✦Collaborative title/abstract and full-text screening workflows
- ✦Structured data extraction and PICO framework support
- ✦Risk of bias assessment tools
- ✦Auto-generated PRISMA flow diagrams and audit trails
- ✦Mobile app for screening on the go
- ✦Visual graph generation of related academic papers
- ✦Discovery of prior and derivative works
- ✦Identification of important and relevant papers
- ✦Exploration of research field dynamics
Use cases
- →Staying informed on emerging tech and policy
- →Following expert analysis over algorithmic feeds
- →Tracking research shaping the next few years
- →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
- →Running systematic literature reviews as a research team
- →Speeding up deduplication and abstract screening for large reference sets
- →Producing PRISMA-compliant documentation for publication
- →Coordinating divided screening workloads across reviewers
- →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
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