Connected Papers AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like Connected Papers

Connected Papers is described as 'Unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work' and is a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Connected Papers, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including iPhone, SaaS, Mac and Windows apps. The best Connected Papers alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Connected Papers are Inciteful, Research Rabbit, ResearchGate and Litmaps.

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  1. Google Scholar icon

    Google Scholar

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Google Scholar does not provide visual graphs to explore relative papers.

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

    • Google Scholar is the most popular free alternative to Connected Papers.

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryConnected Papers is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Inciteful

     6 likes

    Build a network of academic papers and we'll analyze the network to help you discover the most relevant literature.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Research Rabbit

     8 likes

    ResearchRabbit is a research platform that enables you to discover and visualize relevant literature and scholars, create alerts for awesome newly-published papers, share collections with colleagues and the world, and so much more!.

    10 Research Rabbit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    See a graph of papers that cite the ones you have saved, or vice versa, sorted by similarity of chronology
     
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    ResearchGate

     27 likes

    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

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
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    • ResearchGate is the most popular iPhone alternative to Connected Papers.

    • ResearchGate is Free and ProprietaryConnected Papers is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Litmaps

     6 likes

    Discover the world of Scientific Literature - LITERATURE REVIEW SOFTWARE FOR FASTER RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY

    9 Litmaps alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. Semantic Scholar icon

    Semantic Scholar

     13 likes

    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
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  9. Snowball icon

    Snowball

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    Snowball 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Snowball is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Connected Papers.

    • Snowball is the most popular Open Source alternative to Connected Papers.

    • Snowball is Free and Open SourceConnected Papers is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Elicit

     5 likes

    Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help users efficiently discover, organize, and analyze academic papers and insights.

    19 Elicit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    OA.mg

     2 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    RefSeek

     2 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  13. Arxiv Sanity Preserver icon

    Arxiv Sanity Preserver

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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
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  14. Shibata icon

    Shibata

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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
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