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About Open Knowledge Maps
Open Knowledge Maps turns a search on a research topic into a visual map, grouping relevant outputs by concept so you can get an overview of a field and spot important areas. It searches more than 400 million outputs in over 400 languages from more than 11,000 sources via BASE, covering 25 output types including publications, datasets and software.
An AI mapping mode is in beta, with results based only on underlying metadata. It is run by a charitable non-profit and funded by supporting member organisations.
Strengths
- Visual overview of a research topic
- Very large index of open research outputs
- Covers datasets and software, not only papers
- Free and non-profit
Limitations
- AI mapping is still in beta
- Maps are built from metadata, not full text
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use; run by a non-profit funded by supporting members.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Open Knowledge Maps
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Starting a literature search on an unfamiliar topic
- Categories
- Learning tools, AI research
- Last verified
- Added
- Sources
Alternatives to Open Knowledge Maps
Compare allSoftware that can replace Open Knowledge Maps for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
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.
Open Knowledge Maps as an alternative
Listings that name Open Knowledge Maps as an alternative.
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 necessarily 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.
