CiteSeerX AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like CiteSeerX

CiteSeerX is described as 'CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science' and is a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to CiteSeerX, not only websites but also apps for iPhone. The best CiteSeerX alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to CiteSeerX are ResearchGate, Semantic Scholar, Scinapse and Elicit.

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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...

    29 Google Scholar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
    • Google Scholar is the most popular Web-based alternative to CiteSeerX.

    • Google Scholar is the most popular free alternative to CiteSeerX.

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryCiteSeerX is also Free and Proprietary
  2. ResearchGate icon
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    Enables users to upload and share scientific papers, connect with researchers globally, discover and follow research topics, access datasets, send direct messages, participate in discussions, track citation metrics, and explore academic job opportunities.

    35 ResearchGate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • iPhone
     
    • ResearchGate is the most popular iPhone alternative to CiteSeerX.

    • ResearchGate is Free and ProprietaryCiteSeerX is also Free and Proprietary
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    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.

    16 Semantic Scholar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  4. Scinapse icon
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    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.

    11 Scinapse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. Elicit icon
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    Elicit is a GPT-3 powered research assistant. Elicit helps you classify datasets, brainstorm research questions, and search through publications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. RefSeek icon
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    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

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    • Online
     
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    This project is a web interface that attempts to tame the overwhelming flood of papers on Arxiv. It allows researchers to keep track of recent papers, search for papers, sort papers by similarity to any paper, see recent popular papers, to add papers to a personal library, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
    • Arxiv Sanity Preserver is the most popular Open Source alternative to CiteSeerX.

    • Arxiv Sanity Preserver is Free and Open SourceCiteSeerX is Free and Proprietary
  8. Shibata icon
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    Web interface to access Yubetsu Shibata - The World's 11th Largest Scientific Database

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. 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.

    11 Scopus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
    • Scopus is the most popular commercial alternative to CiteSeerX.

    • Scopus is Paid and ProprietaryCiteSeerX is Free and Proprietary
  10. LENS icon
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    The Lens serves almost all the patents and scholarly work in the world as a free, open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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