Research Database Directory

Every research database, reviewed.

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Scholarcy

Auto-summarize any paper into a structured flashcard.

Tier 3 ToolsFreemium

Paperpile

Reference management that lives in Google Docs and your browser.

Tier 3 ToolsSubscription

CiteSpace

Detect the turning points in a field — citation analysis with a temporal lens.

Tier 3 ToolsFree

Bibliometrix

Bibliometric analysis in R — reproducible science mapping, code-first.

Tier 3 ToolsFree

Undermind

Deep, agentic literature search — thorough where keyword search is shallow.

Tier 3 ToolsFreemium

Rayyan

Fast, collaborative screening for systematic reviews — with a generous free tier.

Tier 2 ToolsFreemium

LILACS

Latin American and Caribbean health literature — the regional index PubMed misses.

Tier 3 Open AccessFree

Covidence

The systematic-review workflow — screening, extraction, and team collaboration.

Tier 2 ToolsFreemium

Inciteful

Fast, free citation-network analysis — find the papers that connect your papers.

Tier 3 ToolsFree

DOAB

The Directory of Open Access Books — DOAJ's counterpart for scholarly monographs.

Tier 3 Open AccessFree