Scinapse AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like Scinapse

Scinapse is described as 'Free search engine for academic papers. As of September 2018, it indexes more than 200 million articles from more than 40,000 journals' and is a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Scinapse, not only websites but also apps for. The best Scinapse alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Scinapse are OA.mg, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, Elicit and Internet Archive Scholar.

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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 Scinapse.

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

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryScinapse is also Free and Proprietary
  2. 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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    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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  4. 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
     
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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
     
  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
     
  7. 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
     
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    Thomson Reuters Web of KnowledgeSM is a research platform that gives you access to objective content and powerful tools to search, track, measure and collaborate in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. AMiner icon
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    ArnetMiner (AMiner) is designed to search and perform data mining operations against academic publications on the Internet, using social network analysis to identify connections between researchers, conferences, and publications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  10. Shibata icon
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    Web interface to access Yubetsu Shibata - The World's 11th Largest Scientific Database

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. 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 Scinapse.

    • Scopus is Paid and ProprietaryScinapse is Free and Proprietary
  12. 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

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    • Online
     
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