Scite

Scite is a web-based AI research platform for students, faculty, and professional researchers that helps discover and evaluate scientific literature using Smart Citations and source-grounded AI assistance.

Key capabilities include:

• Smart Citations that show the citation context and classify whether a paper provides supporting, contrasting, or neutral evidence, with access to the exact location where a citation appears.
• Scite Assistant (chat based) that answers research questions with verifiable sources grounded in the indexed literature; it also supports Table Mode for extracting and structuring data from peer-reviewed articles (including PICO terms).
• Literature search and analysis across a large corpus, with full-text search beyond abstracts, citation network visualization, saved searches, alerts, and custom dashboards.
• Workflow integrations including a browser extension for Google Scholar, a Zotero plugin, reference export, and Reference Check for reviewing the reliability of an article’s references.

Pricing: Paid plans include the Basic plan $20/month and the Pro plan $50/month. Each paid plan offers a 7-day free trial. Custom pricing is available for the Organization plan.

What makes it notable: It focuses on citation context and evidence classification, integrates with major academic publishers and preprint servers, and targets academic research workflows rather than general-purpose AI chat.