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 10 alternatives to Connected Papers, not only websites but also apps for iPhone, Mac, Windows and Linux. The best Connected Papers alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Connected Papers are Inciteful, Research Rabbit, Semantic Scholar and ResearchGate.

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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...

    27 Google Scholar alternatives

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    Allan Chain
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    Google Scholar does not provide visual graphs to explore relative papers.

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    • Google Scholar is the most popular Web-based alternative to Connected Papers.

    • Google Scholar is the most popular free alternative to Connected Papers.

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryConnected Papers is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. 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.

    5 Inciteful alternatives

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online

    Inciteful Features

    1.  Network Mapping

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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!.

    7 Research Rabbit alternatives

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online

    Research Rabbit Features

    1.  References
    2. Zotero icon  Zotero integration

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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

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online

    Semantic Scholar Features

    1.  AI-Powered

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  5. ResearchGate icon
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    Access scientific knowledge, and make your research visible.

    33 ResearchGate alternatives

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    • ResearchGate is the most popular iPhone alternative to Connected Papers.

    • ResearchGate is Free and ProprietaryConnected Papers is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Discover the world of Scientific Literature - LITERATURE REVIEW SOFTWARE FOR FASTER RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY

    7 Litmaps alternatives

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    • FreemiumProprietary

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    • Online

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  7. 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.

    15 Elicit alternatives

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    • FreeProprietary

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    Elicit Features

    1.  Export to CSV
    2.  Keyword Research
    3.  Forecasting

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  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.

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Snowball Features

    1.  Citation detection
    2.  Book Manager

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    • Snowball is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Connected Papers.

    • Snowball is the most popular Open Source alternative to Connected Papers.

    • Snowball is Free and Open SourceConnected Papers is Freemium and Proprietary
  9. 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.

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    • FreeProprietary

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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...

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    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.

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online

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  12. 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

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    • Scopus is the most popular commercial alternative to Connected Papers.

    • Scopus is Paid and ProprietaryConnected Papers is Freemium and Proprietary
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