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MathWorks' commercial numeric computing environment and language for engineers and scientists, with toolboxes, Simulink integration, apps and MATLAB Online

The foundational Python plotting library for static, publication-quality figures with full control over every element, exported to PDF, SVG, PNG and PGF

Free reference manager from Elsevier with a desktop and web app, PDF annotation, a Web Importer, groups and bundled cloud storage

Nasdaq's marketplace for financial, economic and alternative datasets (formerly Quandl) with a REST API, time-series and table endpoints and Python, R and Excel clients

Foundational Python library for n-dimensional arrays, vectorized math, linear algebra, random numbers and the array API used by the scientific stack

Free API and web tool from Bloomberg for mapping tickers, ISINs, CUSIPs and other identifiers to public-domain FIGI instrument identifiers, with search and filter endpoints

Non-profit registry of persistent researcher identifiers (ORCID iDs) with user-controlled records, Public and Member APIs, OAuth sign-in and an annual CC0 public data file

Free, open-source research management platform from the Center for Open Science for projects, preregistrations, registries, preprint services and linking outputs across storage providers

Subscription reference manager that lives in the browser and Google Drive, with citation plugins for Google Docs and Word and mobile apps

Posit's multi-language data-science IDE built on Code OSS, with first-class R and Python consoles, variables and plots panes, under the Elastic License 2.0

Open-source deep-learning framework with eager tensors, autograd, torch.compile and distributed training, governed by the PyTorch Foundation and the base of most LLM tooling

Language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, with the CRAN package archive and a strong base in academic statistics and econometrics

R package that turns Markdown documents with embedded R (and Python or SQL) chunks into HTML, PDF, Word, slides, books and dashboards through knitr and Pandoc

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

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

Posit's open-source integrated development environment for R, with console, editor, plots, environment panes, Quarto/R Markdown authoring and Python via reticulate

BSD-licensed Python machine-learning library for classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, preprocessing and model selection on NumPy and SciPy

Core open-source Python library for scientific computing on NumPy arrays: optimization, integration, interpolation, linear algebra, sparse matrices, statistics, signal processing

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

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

Python documentation generator using reStructuredText or MyST Markdown with cross-referencing, API autodoc and output to HTML, PDF via LaTeX, ePub and man pages

Elsevier-owned preprint and working-paper platform with discipline networks, author pages, download rankings and institutional research paper series, free to post and read

Commercial statistical software from StataCorp widely used in economics and social science, with editions BE/SE/MP, a command language, Mata and comprehensive PDF manuals

Pure-Python computer algebra system for symbolic algebra, calculus, equation solving, matrices, physics modules, code generation and LaTeX output