ResearchRabbit

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Literature discovery as a living, visual collection.

At a Glance

PublisherResearchRabbit
Coveragecitation-based discovery and visualization, building author and paper networks from collections you seed
Accessfree
Regionalglobal.

Our Take

ResearchRabbit — often called “Spotify for papers” — lets you build collections and then continuously discover related work and authors through interactive network views, with alerts as new papers appear. It’s free, and it’s well suited to the ongoing, exploratory phase of a project where you’re growing your understanding rather than running a one-off search. Like other mapping tools it’s for discovery, not comprehensive retrieval. Use it to grow and monitor a literature collection over time; anchor high-stakes coverage with a systematic database search.

Power Tips

  • Seed a collection with a few known-good papers and let ResearchRabbit surface related work and authors, then set alerts to keep the map current
  • use it early in a project for exploration, then hand the shortlist to Zotero and a citation index for rigorous follow-up.

Alternatives & Complements

Connected Papers · Litmaps · Semantic Scholar · OpenAlex.