RefSeek AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like RefSeek

RefSeek is described as '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' and is a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to RefSeek, not only websites but also apps for iPhone. The best RefSeek alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to RefSeek are Inciteful, ResearchGate, Semantic Scholar and Connected Papers.

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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 RefSeek.

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

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryRefSeek is also Free 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. 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
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    • ResearchGate is the most popular iPhone alternative to RefSeek.

    • ResearchGate is Free and ProprietaryRefSeek 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
     
  5. 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

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    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).

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  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.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. OA.mg icon
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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.

    13 OA.mg alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Search engine for tens of millions of preserved research papers. This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  10. CiteSeerX icon
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    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

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    • Online
     
  11. 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
     
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