Academic Search: best apps and software

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a search engine for scholarly literature, allowing users to find articles, theses, and books across various disciplines and sources.

Consensus

Consensus is an AI-driven academic search engine for accessing and summarizing over 200 million research papers to aid in scientific inquiry.

Research Rabbit

Research Rabbit helps researchers organize academic papers into collections, visualize connections between topics, and collaborate on literature reviews.

Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant that automates research workflows, finds relevant academic papers, and extracts key information for users.

PubMed

PubMed is an online database providing access to over 30 million citations for biomedical and life sciences literature, including links to full-text articles.

Connected Papers

Connected Papers is a visual tool that helps researchers find and explore academic papers related to their field using citation and reference mapping.

ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect provides access to scientific, technical, and medical research content, including journals, books, and articles for academic and professional use.

Scopus

Scopus is a comprehensive database for peer-reviewed literature across various fields, offering citation tracking and analytics tools for research evaluation.

Elicit

Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant that helps classify datasets, brainstorm research questions, and search literature effectively.

Paperguide

Paperguide is an AI-driven platform for managing research, offering search, analysis, writing, and reference management tools for academics.

scite.ai

Scite.ai helps researchers discover and understand scientific articles through Smart Citations that classify references as supporting or contrasting evidence.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library providing access to academic journals, books, and primary sources for research and education across multiple disciplines.

Wiley Online Library

Wiley Online Library app provides access to a large collection of academic journals, books, and research resources across various disciplines.

Springer

The Springer app provides access to academic articles, books, and journals, supporting research and learning through a search function and content organization tools.

arXiv.org

arXiv.org is a free platform for sharing and accessing scholarly articles in various scientific fields, facilitating rapid dissemination and open access to research preprints.

Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is an AI-powered academic search engine that helps researchers find and analyze scholarly articles across various fields.

R Discovery

R Discovery is a free app for academics to find and read research papers, offering AI-generated article feeds, audio summaries, and translation features.

Litmaps

Litmaps is a research tool that visualizes citation networks and connects academic studies, helping researchers discover trends and stay updated on new papers.

ProQuest

ProQuest is a research platform providing access to a wide range of academic resources, including journals, newspapers, and databases for users in various fields.

Thesify

Thesify is an AI tool that assists graduate students in writing essays and papers, enhancing research skills, and supporting academic and career development.

NASA/ADS

The NASA/ADS app provides access to over 15 million records of astronomical and physics literature, enabling efficient search, organization, and discovery of research materials.

CORE

CORE provides access to the largest collection of open access research papers from various disciplines.

ScholarAI

ScholarAI connects users to open-access, peer-reviewed scientific literature, facilitating efficient research and literature discovery.

EBSCO Information Services

EBSCO Information Services app provides access to a wide range of research databases, e-books, and journals for academic and public institutions, improving research efficiency.

Hindawi

The Hindawi app provides access to open-access scholarly articles and journals across various disciplines for researchers and students.

CiteSeerX

Digital library and search engine for computer and information science papers; indexes PDFs/PostScript, provides citation indexing, metadata and full-text access for research discovery.

NCBI

The NCBI app provides access to biomedical and life sciences literature, including citations, abstracts, and full-text articles for research and health information.

RefSeek

RefSeek is an academic search engine that helps students and researchers find scholarly articles, books, and journals across various disciplines.

Oxford Academic

The Oxford Academic app offers access to scholarly articles, journals, and books, facilitating research and academic exploration across various disciplines.

IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore provides access to a wide range of technical literature in engineering and technology, including articles, papers, and standards for research purposes.

Dimensions

Dimensions offers search and analytics for over 140 million research documents, including publications, grants, patents, and policy documents.

Inciteful

Inciteful is an academic search engine that helps researchers explore literature, identify trends, and visualize citation networks in their field.

Scinapse

Scinapse is an academic search engine that helps researchers find and manage relevant STEM papers from over 170 million articles efficiently.

PubMed.AI

PubMed.AI is an AI-powered tool for efficiently searching and understanding biomedical literature, offering advanced filtering and summarized content for users.

BMC

The BMC app provides access to a platform for open-access biomedical research articles, journals, and resources across various disciplines.

CNKI

The CNKI app provides access to a wide range of Chinese academic resources, including journals, e-books, and databases for research across multiple disciplines.

EvidenceHunt

EvidenceHunt is a chat-based tool that helps users find clinical and biomedical evidence from PubMed and medical guidelines efficiently.

PapersFlow

An AI workspace for finding, organizing, analyzing, and writing about research papers, with citation management and LaTeX support in one place.

Cambrian

Cambrian helps users find recent research and search over 240,000 ML papers, simplifying complex topics and automating literature reviews.

百度学术

Baidu Scholar is an academic search platform that enables users to access a vast database of Chinese and English literature, including journals and conference papers.

Dove Medical Press

Dove Medical Press app offers access to a wide range of peer-reviewed medical journals and articles for healthcare professionals, researchers, and students.

Open Paper

AI tool for analyzing research papers and PDFs: summarizes content, explains concepts, supports semantic search, chat-based queries, batch analysis, citation organization and sharing.

Zendy

Zendy is an AI-powered research library providing access to over 39 million scientific journals, e-books, and magazines, with features for summarizing and customizing searches.

Sourcely

Sourcely is an AI tool that helps users quickly find relevant academic sources by inputting their topics or keywords.

Keenious

Keenious is an AI tool that helps users find related research articles based on a given text, integrating with Microsoft Word and Google Docs for ease of use.

Sciscoper

AI research assistant that finds and organizes papers, generates structured literature reviews, analyzes and compares methods and findings, and extracts key insights.

네이버 학술정보

Naver Academic is an app that provides access to scholarly articles, theses, journals, and research tools, facilitating academic research and information sharing.

IArxiv

IArxiv personalizes paper recommendations from arXiv, helping users discover relevant research and track updates in their fields of interest.

MirrorThink

MirrorThink is an AI-powered research tool that provides quick answers and insights for scientific inquiries and analysis of academic resources.

Open Knowledge Maps

Visual search interface that maps and clusters research from databases (PubMed, BASE), showing topic overviews and links to relevant articles.

Neliti

Neliti is a platform for accessing Indonesian books, reports, and journals, supporting researchers and students in finding academic resources.

StudyRecon

StudyRecon finds and summarizes relevant academic literature, providing comprehensive, accurate results in less time.

ScholarXIV

Provides research-backed answers, lets you like and bookmark papers, discuss them, and start or manage your own research.

PaperLens

PaperLens lets users search, verify claims, and get concise AI summaries from research papers to speed literature review and fact-checking.

Curie

Curie helps researchers search and organize academic literature, review studies, extract data, verify claims, and draft cited writing in one workspace.

Papr

Papr provides a single API and MCP that integrates vector embeddings with knowledge graphs for querying, storing, and linking semantic data.

Chirpz AI

Finds, reads, and ranks academic papers, then suggests citations and metadata within your writing environment by analyzing your text and searching research databases.

Minicule

Minicule is an AI-driven research app that connects to PubMed, OpenAlex, and USPTO for building knowledge graphs and exploring evidence efficiently.

floatz

floatz is an AI tool for discovering and publishing scientific research, offering features like paper summarization, organized libraries, and interactive PDF reading.

BioSkepsis

AI research assistant that searches biomedical papers, reads full texts, and returns cited, evidence-based answers. It can also interpret uploaded lab results.