Snowball AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like Snowball

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 a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 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, Curasynth and Connected Papers.

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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

    Cost / License

    • 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. Curasynth icon
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    Curasynth is an AI-powered research platform designed to streamline and automate various aspects of academic and clinical research, from writing and data analysis to protocol generation. It provides an all-in-one platform for researchers to increase efficiency and reduce the...

    5 Curasynth alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • 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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. 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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
     
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