| NAME | WHAT IT DOES | UNDERLYING DATA | IS IT FREE? | MORE INFORMATION |
| Connected Papers | Connected Papers focuses on the relationships between research papers to find similar research. You can also use Connected Papers to get a visual overview of an academic field. | Semantic Scholar database | Free with paid subscriptions available. | Connected Papers - About |
| Consensus | Consensus uses large language models (LLMs) to help researchers find and synthesize answers to research questions, focusing on the scholarly authors' findings and claims in each paper. | Semantic Scholar database | Free with paid subscriptions available. | Consensus FAQs |
| Elicit | Elicit uses LLMs to find papers relevant to your topic by searching through papers and citations and extracting and synthesizing key information. | Semantic Scholar database | Free with paid subscriptions available. | Elicit FAQs |
| Research Rabbit | Research Rabbit is a citation-based mapping tool that focuses on the relationships between research works. It uses visualizations to help researchers find similar papers and other researchers in their field. | Open Alex, Semantic Scholar, and other databases | Free | Research Rabbit FAQs |
| scite | scite has a suite of products that help researchers develop their topics, find papers, and search citations in context (describing whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence) | Various sources | Paid | scite FAQs; how scite works |
| Scholarcy | Scholarcy summarizes key points and claims of articles into 'summary cards' that researchers can read, share, and annotate when compiling research on a given topic. | Scholarcy only uses research papers uploaded or linked by the researcher themselves. It works as a way to help you read and summarize your research, but is not a search engine. | Free with paid subscriptions available. | Scholarcy FAQs |
| Semantic Scholar | Semantic Scholar (which supplies underlying data for many of the other tools on this list) provides brief summaries ('TLDR's) of the main objectives and results of papers. | Semantic Scholar database | Free | Semantic Scholar FAQs |
| Undermind | An AI research assistant that works with you to refine your research question and find relevant papers. | Semantic Scholar database | Free with paid subscriptions available. | Undermind FAQs |
| Keenious | Keenious is a recommendation tool for academic articles and topics based on papers you upload. | Open Alex | Free with paid subscriptions available. | Keenious Help File |