Research Rabbit
A free discovery engine that maps a field from the papers you already like.
At a Glance
- Publisher
- Research Rabbit
- Coverage
A visual literature-discovery tool that builds citation and similarity networks and recommends related work from your collections (verify current counts).
- Access
Free.
- Free alternative
- It is free; Connected Papers, Litmaps, Inciteful.
- Regional
Global.
Our Take
Research Rabbit is the free, collection-driven cousin of Connected Papers — you seed it with papers you care about and it maps the surrounding literature, recommends new work, and visualizes citation and co-authorship networks, updating as your collection grows. For discovery and staying current it’s excellent, and being free removes the friction. It’s an orientation and monitoring tool, not a systematic search, and it inherits the coverage of the open metadata beneath it. Use it to explore a field and get ongoing recommendations; run a comprehensive database search for completeness.
Power Tips
- Seed a collection with a few key papers and let it recommend the surrounding literature.
- Use the author and citation network views to find prolific groups and foundational work.
- Set it up as a monitoring tool — it surfaces new related papers over time.
Alternatives & Complements
Connected Papers, Litmaps, Inciteful, Semantic Scholar
Figures last verified: June 15, 2026