List of literature mapping tools
A large, comprehensive list of literature mapping tools from Aaron Tay, Head of Data Services at Singapore Management University Libraries and member of Clarivate Academia AI governance board.
citationchaser
Free app for forward and backward citation chasing that uses the Lens.org article index.
Connected Papers
Searches the Semantic Scholar database. Allows you to create and explore a visual map of connected papers based on any single search result. Free tier allows limited number of maps per month.
Inciteful
Free literature mapper based on a seed paper, or pair of papers to explore connecting literature.
Litmaps
Literature navigator and recommender that includes a free tier. It allows you to search and generate a map of relevant articles based on any one paper. Search results are drawn from CrossRef, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar (>200 million items). It allows both citation-based search and semantic similarity searching.
Open Knowledge Maps
An AI-based visual interface for exploring scientific knowledge. Creates a topical overview of your search term based on text similarity of the 100 most relevant papers.
PUREsuggest
Free literature search tool that, starting from some seed papers, suggests scientific publications through citations/references. Retrieves literature meta-data and citation information from OpenCitations and CrossRef.
Research Rabbit
Always free, non-profit citation chasing literature mapping and visualization tool. It performs searches with a a very large literature corpus covering >90% of academic databases, plus grey literature. Start with uploaded citations, or link to Zotero citation manager.
