'Smart Citations' show whether a paper is supported, contrasted, or just mentioned by later work
Scite is listed under Academic Research, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. 'Smart Citations' show whether a paper is supported, contrasted, or just mentioned by later work. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at scite.ai.
Scite 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.
Scite does 3 things the catalog singles out: 'smart citations' show whether a paper is supported, contrasted, or just mentioned by later work; browser extension and zotero/reference-manager integrations; free limited searches before requiring a subscription.
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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