Snowball Alternatives

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 Semantic Scholar, ResearchGate, Connected Papers and Elicit.

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Snowball lets you quickly find and filter through papers using the snowballing method. Start with a core collection of...

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Snowball alternatives page was last updated Sep 7, 2024
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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...

    28 Google Scholar alternatives

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online

    Google Scholar VS Snowball

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

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

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietarySnowball is Free and Open Source
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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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  3. ResearchGate icon
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    Access scientific knowledge, and make your research visible.

    33 ResearchGate alternatives

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online
    • iPhone

    ResearchGate VS Snowball

     
    • ResearchGate is the most popular iPhone alternative to Snowball.

    • ResearchGate is Free and ProprietarySnowball is Free and Open Source
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    Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.

    15 Connected Papers alternatives

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    • FreemiumProprietary

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    • Online

    Properties

    1.  Educational

    Features

    1.  Graphs

    Connected Papers VS Snowball

     
  5. 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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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

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    • Online

    Elicit Features

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

    Elicit VS Snowball

     
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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...

    9 Arxiv Sanity Preserver alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Online

    Arxiv Sanity Preserver VS Snowball

     
    • Arxiv Sanity Preserver is the most popular Open Source alternative to Snowball.

    • Arxiv Sanity Preserver is Free and Open SourceSnowball is also Free and Open Source
  7. 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.

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    Scopus VS Snowball

     
    • Scopus is the most popular commercial alternative to Snowball.

    • Scopus is Paid and ProprietarySnowball is Free and Open Source
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    Web interface to access Yubetsu Shibata - The World's 14th Largest Scientific Database

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Online

    Properties

    1.  Educational

    Features

    1.  Reading
    2.  Scientific data analysis
    3.  Article search

    Yubetsu Shibata VS Snowball

     
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    Based on a set of selected publications, suggesting related publications connected by references.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online

    PUREsuggest VS Snowball

     
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