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arXiv

arXiv (independent non-profit, formerly hosted by Cornell University) · Research dissemination

Free, moderated open-access preprint server for physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, quantitative finance, economics and related fields, with an open API and bulk access

Open sourceFreeNov 2, 2026

Connected Papers

Connected Papers · Literature discovery & review

Visual literature-exploration tool that builds a similarity graph of papers around a seed paper, with prior and derivative works lists

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Consensus

Consensus · Literature discovery & review

AI search engine over peer-reviewed literature that synthesizes answers, shows a Consensus Meter for yes/no questions and summarizes studies

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Crossref

Crossref · Research dissemination

Membership organization that registers DOIs for scholarly content and exposes the metadata through a free public REST API, content negotiation and the paid Metadata Plus service

ProprietaryFreePaidNov 2, 2026

Elicit

Elicit · Literature discovery & review

AI research assistant that finds papers, extracts structured data from them into tables and runs systematic-review style workflows and reports

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Google Scholar

Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Literature discovery & review

Free scholarly search engine from Google that indexes articles, theses, books and court opinions with citation counts and author profiles

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

OpenAlex

OurResearch · Literature discovery & review

In-depth entry

Open catalog of the global research system: works, authors, sources, institutions and topics under CC0, served by a REST API, web app and S3 snapshot

Open sourceFreeFreemiumBroken

RePEc

RePEc volunteers · Research dissemination

Volunteer-run decentralized bibliographic database of economics research, fed by institutional archives and served through IDEAS, EconPapers, the Author Service, CitEc, NEP and MPRA

MixedFreeNov 2, 2026

ResearchRabbit

ResearchRabbit (Litmap Limited) · Literature discovery & review

Literature-discovery app that grows collections of papers through citation and author networks and recommends related work, with a free-forever tier

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

scite

Scite LLC (Research Solutions) · Literature discovery & review

Citation-analysis platform whose Smart Citations show whether later papers support, contrast or merely mention a claim, with an AI assistant and reference checking

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Semantic Scholar

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · Literature discovery & review

Free AI-assisted literature search from Ai2 with an Academic Graph API, recommendations and downloadable datasets of papers, authors and citations

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

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