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Paper Digest
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.

140K 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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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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Thesify
✓ verifiedPaid

AI reviewer that critiques academic manuscripts and Coauthor agents that search, cite, and draft alongside researchers.

161K visits/mo32K saves
Pricing

No public pricing

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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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
  • literature review generator with per-sentence citations
  • AI reader for PDFs
  • AI writer with citations
  • academic claim verification
  • question answering over literature
  • daily, conference and best-paper digests
  • cross-source search of papers, patents and grants
  • Visual graph generation of related academic papers
  • Discovery of prior and derivative works
  • Identification of important and relevant papers
  • Exploration of research field dynamics
  • 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 manuscript review flagging gaps in argument and evidence
  • Citation search across 200+ million academic sources
  • Coauthor agents that search, read, and draft alongside users
  • Journal recommender and chat support
  • Confidentiality guarantee that documents aren't used for AI training
Use cases
  • staying current with new research
  • generating cited literature reviews
  • reading and understanding papers
  • verifying academic claims
  • tracking topics and conferences
  • 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
  • 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
  • Graduate students refining a thesis or dissertation
  • Researchers preparing a manuscript for journal submission
  • Students polishing essays and reports for coursework
  • Getting fast feedback without waiting on a supervisor
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