ResearchLit AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like ResearchLit

ResearchLit is described as 'AI-powered platform designed to help researchers discover code repositories linked to academic papers and generate summaries or insights from collections of papers' and is a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ResearchLit, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including SaaS, iPhone, Mac and Windows apps. The best ResearchLit alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to ResearchLit 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...

    32 Google Scholar alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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

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

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryResearchLit 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.

    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.

    38 ResearchGate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • iPhone
     
    • ResearchGate is the most popular iPhone alternative to ResearchLit.

    • ResearchGate is Free and ProprietaryResearchLit is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. 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.

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    • 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. 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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    • Snowball is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ResearchLit.

    • Snowball is the most popular Open Source alternative to ResearchLit.

    • Snowball is Free and Open SourceResearchLit is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. 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.

    19 Elicit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  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.

    15 RefSeek alternatives

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    • 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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