Alternatives to Connected Papers
A web tool that draws a visual graph of academic papers related to one you start from. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Connected Papers
A web tool that draws a visual graph of academic papers related to one you start from.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Connected Papers.
Semantic Scholar
A free, AI-powered search engine for scientific literature covering papers from all fields of science.
Semantic Scholar gives a free search engine covering more than 238 million papers with a public API, but shows plain results rather than a visual graph of related papers.
SciSpace
An AI research assistant for searching papers, running literature reviews and writing with citations.
SciSpace adds search across more than 280 million papers, chat with PDF, literature review tools and a citation generator, with full features requiring a paid plan and no visual graph.
Elicit
An AI research assistant that finds papers, summarizes findings and extracts data for literature reviews.
Elicit is an AI research assistant that finds, summarizes and extracts data from papers for literature reviews, replacing the visual graph with written summaries and extracted data.
Scite
An AI research tool that answers questions from scholarly articles and shows how claims are cited.
Scite answers questions from scholarly articles and shows whether later work supports or contradicts a finding, and offers a Zotero plugin, instead of drawing a graph of related papers.
Consensus
An AI search engine for peer-reviewed literature that gives evidence-based answers drawn from papers.
Consensus is an AI search engine over peer-reviewed literature that gives evidence-based answers to a question, rather than mapping related papers from a single starting paper.
ResearchRabbit
A web tool for literature reviews that finds related papers and builds citation maps.
ResearchRabbit is free and also finds related papers from a seed paper with visual citation maps, but it requires an account.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Mendeley
A reference manager from Elsevier for collecting, annotating and citing research papers.
EndNote
A long-running reference manager for collecting sources and formatting citations in academic writing.
Explainpaper
A web tool that explains highlighted passages of uploaded research papers in plain language.
Unpaywall
A browser extension that finds legal open-access copies of paywalled research papers.
JabRef
An open-source reference manager for collecting, organising and citing literature in BibTeX and BibLaTeX.
