ResearchRabbit

ResearchRabbit is a literature discovery platform that helps researchers explore academic papers through visual networks instead of traditional keyword search. Users start with one or a few "seed" papers relevant to their topic, and the platform builds interactive maps showing related work, citation links, and coauthorship networks radiating out from those papers. This lets researchers follow a chain of connected literature, spot clusters of related research, find emerging papers on a topic, and see how a field has evolved over time, all without manually chaining together searches. The platform indexes more than 310 million academic articles by drawing on PubMed, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and Crossref, and it integrates with Zotero for reference management. It is built for academic researchers, graduate students, and faculty conducting literature reviews, and it is used by researchers at institutions including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, and Berkeley. The core product is free with unlimited searches and one project, with an optional RR+ subscription for additional capacity. One known limitation is that ResearchRabbit's index can lag behind Google Scholar or Scopus in surfacing very recent publications, and its citation-based approach is weighted toward journal articles, so it may miss relevant conference proceedings or technical reports.