Free literature discovery tool that maps papers and collections
Research Rabbit is a literature discovery tool that starts from papers you already know and expands outwards. You build collections, and the app suggests related work, authors to follow and earlier or later papers in the same line of research, all shown on a visual network. It can sync with a reference manager and with an ORCID profile, so new publications by tracked authors arrive as alerts. It is free to use, which is unusual in this category, and it complements a reference manager rather than replacing one: storing and formatting citations is still somebody else's job.
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literature discovery, tracking authors, building reading lists and staying current
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Not to use it, but they pair well. Research Rabbit finds and maps the papers, while a reference manager stores the metadata and formats citations, so most researchers end up running both.
It can read a connected library so your existing collections appear inside the tool and suggestions build on them. Nothing is moved, and you keep managing the library where it already lives.
The discovery and mapping features are free, and the product is funded separately from them. Features can change, so confirm the current plan structure before building a workflow around it.
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