Academic Research Tools

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  1. Google Scholar icon
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    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    34 alternatives
  2. Research icon
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    The Research app is designed to streamline your workflow, offering a minimalist yet powerful platform for collecting, organizing, and analyzing research materials.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  3. ReadCube Papers icon
     71 likes

    Papers helps you collect and curate the research material that you're passionate about. This award-winning reference manager will improve the way you find, organize, read, cite, and share.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Firefox
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  4. Academia.edu icon
     26 likes

    is a social networking website for academics. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. It was launched in September08, with 31 million registered and over 8 million uploaded texts.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    26 alternatives
  5. Semantic Scholar (paywall free) is a science publication aggregator that collects citation-data from PubMed, CiteSeer, IEEE etc and rank each article according to the percieved number of impactful citations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    22 alternatives
  6. Wispar icon
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    Wispar is a user-friendly and privacy-friendly Android/iOS app that seamlessly searches scientific journals and articles using the Crossref and OpenAlex API. Stay updated on your preferred journals by following them and receive new article abstracts in your main feed.

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • F-Droid
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    4 alternatives
  7. Scinapse icon
     13 likes

    Scinapse is a free search engine for academic papers. As of September 2018, it indexes more than 200 million articles from more than 40,000 journals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    15 alternatives
  8. BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 300 million documents from more than 10,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. Snowball icon
     4 likes

    Snowball lets you quickly find and filter through papers using the snowballing method. Start with a core collection of papers, and find more by going through their citations and references.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. ORKG Ask icon
     1 like

    ORKG Ask is an advanced search system designed to help you find and extract valuable information from a vast corpus of research articles. ORKG Ask revolutionizes the way researchers, academics, and enthusiasts navigate through scholarly literature by leveraging cutting-edge...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    3 alternatives
  11. ResearchWize icon
     1 like

    All-in-one AI research assistant for students: summarize articles, chat with your notes, helps generate essays, citations, quizzes, and full presentations—right from your browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    Customizable summaries.
    Project Management to track all your research.
    Create academic content with ease utilizing all your research.
    24 alternatives
  12. OA.mg icon
     2 likes

    OA.mg is a search engine for academic papers. Whether you are looking for a specific paper, or for research from a field, or all of an author’s works – OA.mg is the place to find it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  13. Sourcely icon
     2 likes

    AI-powered tool helping students find reliable sources for essays by offering a user-friendly interface, source summaries, and direct source access.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    Academic Citation Finding Tool with AI
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  14. RefSeek icon
     2 likes

    RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    17 alternatives
  15. PubMed.gov icon
     5 likes

    PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    16 alternatives
  16. JSTOR icon
     2 likes

    JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    7 alternatives
  17. CiteSeerX icon
     3 likes

    CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    13 alternatives
  18. AMiner icon
     2 likes

    ArnetMiner (AMiner) is designed to search and perform data mining operations against academic publications on the Internet, using social network analysis to identify connections between researchers, conferences, and publications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  19. Scopus icon
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    Elsevier’s Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  20. We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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