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Paper Digest
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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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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
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Connected Papers
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Widely used visual tool for exploring related academic papers.
873K visits/mo
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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
- ✦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
- ✦Research on AI governance
- ✦Analysis of AI risks and opportunities
- ✦Annual reports and updates
- ✦Information on AI regulation
- ✦Event summaries and announcements
- ✦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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- ✦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 current with new research
- →generating cited literature reviews
- →reading and understanding papers
- →verifying academic claims
- →tracking topics and conferences
- →Understanding public attitudes towards AI
- →Analyzing the impact of AI on great powers
- →Regulating downstream AI developers
- →Managing risks from AI-enabled biological tools
- →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.
- →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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