Snowball is described as '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' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are nine alternatives to Snowball for Web-based and iPhone. The best Snowball alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great apps like Snowball are ResearchGate, Semantic Scholar, Connected Papers and Elicit.
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...
Google Scholar is the most popular Web-based alternative to Snowball.
Google Scholar is the most popular free alternative to Snowball.
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.
ResearchGate is the most popular iPhone alternative to Snowball.
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.
Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
Elicit is a GPT-3 powered research assistant. Elicit helps you classify datasets, brainstorm research questions, and search through publications.
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...
Arxiv Sanity Preserver is the most popular Open Source alternative to Snowball.
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.
Scopus is the most popular commercial alternative to Snowball.
Based on a set of selected publications, suggesting related publications connected by references.
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