Connected Papers AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like Connected Papers

Connected Papers is described as 'Unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work' and is a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Connected Papers, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux and SaaS apps. The best Connected Papers alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Connected Papers are Research Rabbit, Inciteful, ResearchGate and Litmaps.

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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...

    38 Google Scholar alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Google Scholar vs Connected Papers Comments
    Allan Chain
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    Google Scholar does not provide visual graphs to explore relative papers.

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryConnected Papers is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. Research Rabbit icon
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    ResearchRabbit is a research platform that enables you to discover and visualize relevant literature and scholars, create alerts for awesome newly-published papers, share collections with colleagues and the world, and so much more!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Inciteful icon
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    Build a network of academic papers and we'll analyze the network to help you discover the most relevant literature.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Inciteful vs Connected Papers Comments
    Guest
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    It is not an israeli based website #freepalestine

    • Inciteful is Free and ProprietaryConnected Papers is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. 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.

    42 ResearchGate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • iPhone
     
  5. Litmaps icon
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    Discover the world of Scientific Literature - LITERATURE REVIEW SOFTWARE FOR FASTER RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Lixplore-cli unifies multi-database search, AI screening, auto deduplication, annotations, alerts & PRISMA-ready exports. Researchers: don’t waste your first 3 months screening manually. Tired of 10 tabs and endless duplicates? Built for focus, not friction.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Terminal
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • PowerShell
    • Mac
     
  7. 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.

    28 Semantic Scholar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. Snowball icon
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    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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Elicit icon
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    Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help users efficiently discover, organize, and analyze academic papers and insights.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Nubint AI icon
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    Nubint AI is an AI research workspace that supports the entire paper-writing workflow. Draft with verified citations from a 460M+ academic paper database (no fabricated references), write with sentence-level AI autocomplete and inline edits, and format citations automatically in...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Microsoft Edge
     
  11. OA.mg icon
     3 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

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    • Online
     
  12. RefSeek icon
     3 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

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    • Online
     
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