Alternatives to Open Knowledge Maps
A nonprofit visual search engine that builds topic maps of research literature. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Open Knowledge Maps
A nonprofit visual search engine that builds topic maps of research literature.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Open Knowledge Maps.
Litmaps
A literature review tool that maps citation networks around seed papers to find related research.
Litmaps builds visual citation maps from seed papers and sends alerts on new papers, as a freemium service with advanced features on paid plans.
ResearchRabbit
A web tool for literature reviews that finds related papers and builds citation maps.
ResearchRabbit is free and maps how papers and authors connect from a seed paper, but requires an account and works from citations rather than topic maps.
Inciteful
A free web tool that uses citation graphs to find related academic papers and connect two papers.
Inciteful is a free web tool that finds related papers from citation links and can connect two papers, with the same focus on open access.
CORE
A search engine and database aggregating hundreds of millions of open access research papers.
CORE is a not-for-profit search engine over hundreds of millions of open access papers with full text and APIs, but returns result lists rather than visual maps.
Semantic Scholar
A free, AI-powered search engine for scientific literature covering papers from all fields of science.
Semantic Scholar is a free AI-powered search engine indexing more than 238 million papers with a public API, presenting results as lists instead of topic maps.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Open Knowledge Maps as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Google Scholar
Google's free search engine for scholarly articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.
Open Knowledge Maps is a free nonprofit visual search engine that builds topic maps of research from metadata, suited to exploring unfamiliar topics.
The Lens
A search and analysis platform for patents and scholarly literature, with charts and collections.
Open Knowledge Maps is free and nonprofit, presenting research outputs including datasets and software as visual topic maps, but without patents or collection features.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Elicit
An AI research assistant that finds papers, summarizes findings and extracts data for literature reviews.
Consensus
An AI search engine for peer-reviewed literature that gives evidence-based answers drawn from papers.
Undermind
An AI research agent that searches the scientific literature in depth and cites every source.
