Rayyan is a cloud-based research collaboration platform built for literature reviews, scoping reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. Conducting evidence synthesis by hand means processing thousands of citations across spreadsheets and reference managers, a process that consumes hundreds of hours and introduces error and reviewer bias. Rayyan centralizes that pipeline into a single web-based workspace built […]
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Scite is an AI-powered research platform built to help researchers, students, authors, and institutions evaluate scholarly literature. Instead of counting how often a paper has been cited, it shows whether later studies actually supported, contradicted, or simply mentioned that paper’s findings. Traditional citation counts tell you volume, not validity. That leaves researchers exposed to disputed […]
Litmaps is a literature review and citation mapping platform built for researchers, students, and industry professionals who need to discover and track scientific papers. Instead of relying only on keyword search, it uses citation networks to connect related articles, addressing a common problem with traditional academic search: relevant papers get missed when terminology varies across […]
Scholarcy is an AI-powered article summarizer built for academic research and literature reviews. It converts long texts, book chapters, and YouTube videos into structured summary flashcards. The tool is made by Scholarcy Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. The main problem it addresses is information overload during literature reviews. Researchers and students often […]
ResearchRabbit is a web-based literature discovery and citation mapping platform for academic researchers and students. It converts a small set of user-supplied papers into a visual, expandable network of related academic works. The tool targets the problem of manual, fragmented keyword searching across multiple disconnected databases. Users create collections, add seed papers, and the platform […]
Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant built by Elicit, Inc. It automates literature reviews, evidence synthesis, and structured data extraction for scientific research. The platform queries over 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials using semantic search and natural language processing. Users submit a natural language research question. Elicit retrieves relevant papers and screens […]