Scite

Scite is an AI research assistant that searches scholarly articles and shows whether citations support or dispute claims.

Scite is an AI-powered research tool designed for scholars, students, and industry experts to find and evaluate scientific literature. It searches hundreds of millions of scholarly articles, patents, clinical trials, grants, preprints, and datasets using licensed data from major publishers. Users can ask questions to receive citation-backed answers where every claim links directly to a specific sentence in a source paper. Smart Citations analyze whether later research supports, challenges, or mentions a publication, claim, or author. It integrates with Claude, ChatGPT, Zotero, and an API to fit into existing research workflows.

Scite at a glance

Best for: Researcher, Student
Runs on: Web, API, Chrome extension
Pricing: Basic $20/month, Pro $50/month (billed yearly); Team $250/month for 8 seats; Enterprise custom; 7-day free trial
Released: May 2019
Category: AI research tool
Website: scite.ai

Key features

Search over 300 million scholarly articles
Smart Citations showing supporting or disputing evidence
AI assistant answering questions with literature grounding
Sentence-level links back to original papers
Coverage of patents, clinical trials, and grants
Integration with Claude, ChatGPT, and Zotero
API access for custom team tools

Use it for

Finding related work to cite and read for papers
Assessing whether scientific findings are disputed or affirmed
Searching licensed scholarly content beyond paywalls
Tracing research ideas from grants to published findings

Companions

Tools that articles about Scite recommend using with it, each with its job.

Elicit — Elicit finds papers and extracts study details first.
Gemini Notebook — NotebookLM for evidence across a curated source set.
Zotero — Zotero holds the checked bibliography.
Consensus — Consensus for fast evidence reads.
Perplexity — Real-time, cited answers on recent work.
Claude — Drafts and synthesis from your sources.

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Lune — Accesses trusted knowledge from top conference papers for AI agents.
SciSummary — Extracts abstracts, figures, and references to match academic reading needs.
Semantic Scholar — Search over 238 million papers across all fields of science.
Liner — Provides cited answers and reliable literature reviews with high accuracy.
Paper2Agent — It enables direct interaction with research papers and automatic result reproduction.
Keryx — Compensates verified creators directly in USDC for cited sources
Sourcely — Access over 200 million academic papers and export citations instantly.

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