AMiner is described as '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' and is a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are nine alternatives to AMiner, not only websites but also apps for Windows. The best AMiner alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to AMiner are Semantic Scholar, Scinapse, OA.mg and Publish or Perish.