Elicit
The AI research assistant built for evidence — search, screen, and extract at scale.
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Research Database Directory
Every research database, reviewed.
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The emerging class of AI research assistants — powerful, and to be used with care.
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EndNote
The veteran reference manager, deeply embedded in institutional workflows.
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FutureHouse Platform
Named agents for literature Q&A, deep synthesis and prior-work detection.
Tier 3 ToolsFreemium
Google Dataset Search
Google for datasets — one search box across millions of data repositories.
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Inciteful
Fast, free citation-network analysis — find the papers that connect your papers.
Tier 3 ToolsFree
InCites
Clarivate's research analytics, built on Web of Science.
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JabRef
The open-source BibTeX manager — a LaTeX writer's reference home.
Tier 3 ToolsFree
Lens.org
Where the scholarly literature meets the patent record — innovation research in one place.
Tier 2 ToolsFreemium
Crossref
The DOI backbone of scholarly publishing — metadata that ties the literature together.
Tier 2 ToolsFree