Connected Papers

Visual graph of related papers built from co-citation analysis

What Connected Papers does

  • Visual graph of related papers built from co-citation analysis
  • Free graphs per month before requiring paid Academic/Pro plan
  • Prior-work and derivative-work graph views

Connected Papers — straight answers

What is Connected Papers?

Connected Papers is listed under Academic Research, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. Visual graph of related papers built from co-citation analysis. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at connectedpapers.com.

Is Connected Papers free?

Connected Papers is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can Connected Papers do?

Connected Papers does 3 things the catalog singles out: Visual graph of related papers built from co-citation analysis; free graphs per month before requiring paid academic/pro plan; prior-work and derivative-work graph views.

What is the best free alternative to Connected Papers?

Ai2 Paper Finder (Asta) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Academic Research sub-category and is free. alphaXiv, ResearchRabbit and Semantic Scholar also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Elicit

Academic Research
freemium
  • Find and summarize research papers
  • Extract data across studies
  • Systematic-review workflows
  • Free monthly credits

Consensus

Academic Research
freemium
  • Answers grounded in peer-reviewed papers
  • Consensus Meter across studies
  • Study snapshots and quality
  • Free searches

SciSpace

Academic Research
freemium
  • Explain and chat with any paper
  • Literature review and comparison tables
  • Paraphrase and citation help
  • Free tier

Undermind

Academic Research
freemium
  • Exhaustive, agentic literature search
  • Finds hard-to-surface papers
  • Explains why each result matters
  • Free searches to start

Semantic Scholar

Academic Research
free
  • Fully free AI-powered search across 237M+ scientific papers
  • Semantic Reader augmented-reading tool for papers
  • Free public API used by many other research tools

ResearchRabbit

Academic Research
free
  • Visual citation-network mapping across 310M+ papers
  • Zotero integration for reference management
  • Used by 1M+ researchers at Harvard/Stanford/MIT/Oxford, free to sign up

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