CiteSeerX AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like CiteSeerX

CiteSeerX is described as 'CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science' and is a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to CiteSeerX, not only websites but also apps for iPhone. The best CiteSeerX alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to CiteSeerX are ResearchGate, Semantic Scholar, Scinapse and Elicit.

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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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    • Online
     
  2. 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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    • Online
    • iPhone
     
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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

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    • Freemium
    • 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.

    15 RefSeek alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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  7. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
     
  8. 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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    • Online
     
  9. 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.

    14 Scopus alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  10. 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
     
  11. ResearchLit icon
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    ResearchLit is an AI-powered platform designed to help researchers discover code repositories linked to academic papers and generate summaries or insights from collections of papers.

    19 ResearchLit alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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