Literature Management

Compare 18 literature management tools to find the right one for your needs

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Compare and find the best literature management for your needs

ResearchRabbit

The Spotify of Research.

An AI-powered discovery tool that helps researchers find relevant literature and visualize the research landscape.

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Connected Papers

Find and explore academic papers.

A visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.

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Zotero

Your personal research assistant.

A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

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Rayyan

The AI-Powered Platform for Evidence-Based Research.

A free web and mobile app that helps researchers working on systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other knowledge synthesis projects.

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Elicit

The AI Research Assistant.

Uses language models to help you automate research workflows, like parts of a literature review.

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Citavi

The All-In-One-Tool for Researchers and Students.

A Windows-based reference management and knowledge organization tool.

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DistillerSR

The world's leading systematic review software.

An AI-powered literature review software that automates the management of literature collection, screening, and assessment.

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Paperpile

The modern way to manage your research papers.

A reference manager that is deeply integrated with Google Docs and Google Chrome.

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Scite

The new way to discover and evaluate scientific articles.

An award-winning platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles via Smart Citations.

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Semantic Scholar

AI-Powered Research Tool.

A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, developed at the Allen Institute for AI.

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Covidence

The #1 systematic review software.

A web-based software platform that streamlines the production of systematic and other evidence reviews.

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JabRef

An open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management tool.

A free reference manager that uses the BibTeX and BibLaTeX formats as its native formats.

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Mendeley

A free reference manager and academic social network.

Helps you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

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Iris.ai

Your AI Science Assistant.

An AI-powered platform for literature discovery and processing, aimed at corporate R&D.

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EndNote

The industry standard for bibliography and reference management.

A commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays, reports and articles.

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ReadCube Papers

Your research, all in one place.

An award-winning reference manager that helps you collect and curate the research material that you're passionate about.

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Litmaps

Discover the world of research.

A literature mapping tool that creates interactive maps of academic literature to help you discover and explore research.

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Keenious

The AI that helps you find relevant research.

An AI-powered tool that analyzes your text and recommends relevant research papers.

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