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OSF (Open Science Framework)

Center for Open Science · Reproducibility & research software

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

Apache-2.0FreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Overleaf

Overleaf (Digital Science) · LaTeX & typesetting

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Collaborative online LaTeX editor with real-time co-editing, templates and reference-manager sync, available as a hosted service and an AGPL self-hosted edition

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreemiumPaidSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Pandoc

John MacFarlane · LaTeX & typesetting

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Universal document converter that translates between Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, DOCX, EPUB, Typst, Jupyter and dozens of other formats, with citeproc and Lua filters

GPL-2.0-or-laterFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

Paperpile

Paperpile LLC · Citation management

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

ProprietaryPaidAcademicNov 2, 2026

Positron

Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing

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

Elastic-2.0FreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Project Jupyter

Project Jupyter (NumFOCUS) · Notebooks & interactive computing

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Open-source computational notebook ecosystem: the .ipynb format, kernels for Python, R and Julia, JupyterLab and Notebook interfaces and JupyterHub

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Python

Python Software Foundation · Programming languages & runtimes

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General-purpose, dynamically typed programming language with a large standard library and the dominant ecosystem for data science and machine learning

PSF-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

QuantLib

QuantLib project (Luigi Ballabio and contributors) · Financial analysis & investing

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Open-source C++ library for quantitative finance covering instruments, term structures, pricing engines and calendars, with Python and other bindings

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Quarto

Posit Software, PBC · Academic writing & publishing

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Open-source scientific publishing system from Posit that renders Markdown with executable Python, R, Julia or Observable code to HTML, PDF, Word, slides, websites and books via Pandoc

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

R

R Foundation / R Core Team · Programming languages & runtimes

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

GPL-2.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

R Markdown

Posit Software, PBC · Academic writing & publishing

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

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalMaintenanceBroken

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

RStudio IDE

Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing

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

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 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

SEC EDGAR

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · SEC/EDGAR & corporate filings

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The SEC's free public filing system: company and full-text search, bulk index and feed archives, and data.sec.gov JSON APIs for submissions and XBRL financial facts, subject to a fair-access rate policy

ProprietaryFreeNov 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

SSRN

Elsevier · Research dissemination

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

ProprietaryFreeEnterpriseNov 2, 2026

Stata

StataCorp LLC · Mathematical & statistical computing

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

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 2, 2026

Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (Government of Canada) · Open & public data

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Canada's national statistical agency publishing census, economic and social data tables with open licensing and programmatic access via Web Data Service

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

statsmodels

statsmodels developers (NumFOCUS) · Econometrics & causal inference

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Python library for estimating statistical and econometric models with R-style formulas, rich result summaries and tests: OLS, GLM, discrete choice, ARIMA, state space, VAR and more

BSD-3-ClauseFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

SymPy

SymPy Development Team · Mathematical & statistical computing

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

BSD-3-ClauseFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

TeX Live

TeX Users Group (TUG) · LaTeX & typesetting

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The comprehensive free TeX distribution for Linux, macOS and Windows, released yearly with the tlmgr package manager and all major engines, packages and fonts

Open sourceFreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

TeXstudio

TeXstudio contributors · LaTeX & typesetting

Open-source desktop LaTeX editor with integrated PDF viewer, autocompletion, wizards, spell checking and a structure view for Windows, macOS and Linux

GPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

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