ResearchRabbit

Visual citation-network mapping across 310M+ papers

What ResearchRabbit does

  • 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

ResearchRabbit — straight answers

What is ResearchRabbit?

ResearchRabbit is listed under Academic Research, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. Visual citation-network mapping across 310M+ papers. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at researchrabbit.ai.

Is ResearchRabbit free?

ResearchRabbit is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 396 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

Can I use ResearchRabbit in a browser, or is there an app?

ResearchRabbit works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web.

What can ResearchRabbit do?

ResearchRabbit does 3 things the catalog singles out: 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.

What is the best free alternative to ResearchRabbit?

Ai2 Paper Finder (Asta) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Academic Research sub-category and is free. alphaXiv, Semantic Scholar and PaperQA2 also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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SciSpace

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Undermind

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  • Exhaustive, agentic literature search
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Semantic Scholar

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  • 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

Connected Papers

Academic Research
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  • 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

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