Alternatives to Keenious

A research recommender that suggests relevant academic papers based on the text you are writing. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • Keenious

    A research recommender that suggests relevant academic papers based on the text you are writing.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Keenious.

  • ResearchRabbit

    A web tool for literature reviews that finds related papers and builds citation maps.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    ResearchRabbit suggests related papers from a seed paper and draws citation maps, rather than recommending papers from the text you are writing, and is free with an account.

  • Litmaps

    A literature review tool that maps citation networks around seed papers to find related research.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Litmaps finds related research by mapping citation networks around seed papers and sends alerts on new papers, but it has no Word or Google Docs integration.

  • Inciteful

    A free web tool that uses citation graphs to find related academic papers and connect two papers.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Inciteful is a free web tool that finds related papers through citation graphs rather than your writing, and can show how two papers connect.

  • Jenni AI

    An AI writing assistant for academic essays and research papers, with source library and citations.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Jenni AI is an academic writing assistant with built-in library search and citations linked to sources, where you draft inside Jenni instead of Word or Google Docs.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • Semantic Scholar

    A free, AI-powered search engine for scientific literature covering papers from all fields of science.

    FreeProprietaryWebBrowser extension

  • Google Scholar

    Google's free search engine for scholarly articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

  • Paperpal

    An AI academic writing tool with grammar checks, citations, paraphrasing and journal submission checks.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

  • Elicit

    An AI research assistant that finds papers, summarizes findings and extracts data for literature reviews.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

  • SciSpace

    An AI research assistant for searching papers, running literature reviews and writing with citations.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb