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ResearchRabbit

Citation-based literature mapping that visualizes how papers connect.

Category
Research
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
Web
Models
Model-agnostic
Verified
Jun 14, 2026

A literature-discovery tool for researchers that maps the scholarly landscape instead of returning flat result lists. Start from one or more "seed" papers and it surfaces related work, citing/cited papers, and relevant authors as an interactive network — drawing on 270M+ papers — so connections appear even when articles don't cite each other directly. Collections sync to Zotero and can trigger new-paper alerts.

Capabilities 2

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Recommendation engine (secondary capability)
  • Literature search (primary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Free Forever tier is genuinely usable
  • Visual citation and author network maps
  • Syncs collections to Zotero
  • 270M+ papers indexed
  • No paywall to start exploring
  • Not an LLM Q&A or summarizer
  • No full-text PDF reading or analysis
  • Web-only
  • Seed-input cap on the free tier

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