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Rayyan
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AI-assisted systematic literature review platform for research teams handling screening, deduplication, extraction, and PRISMA reporting.
1.1M visits/mo
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Infranodus
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Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.
71K 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
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)
No public 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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Core 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
- ✦Text network / knowledge graph visualization
- ✦Topic modeling and content-gap detection
- ✦AI insight and question generation
- ✦GraphRAG and MCP server for LLMs
- ✦Many import sources (PDF, CSV, YouTube, Google, web)
- ✦Obsidian plugin and browser extension
- ✦AI-generated visual maps of research topics
- ✦Clusters papers into themes
- ✦Open-access resource discovery
- ✦Open-source and nonprofit
- ✦Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
- ✦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
- →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
- →Research and idea generation
- →SEO content-gap analysis
- →Qualitative and market research
- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems
- →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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