Scite
Acquired: by Research Solutions
Shows how papers are cited (supporting, contrasting, mentioning) and answers research questions with Smart Citations.
Best for Checking citation context and claim reliability
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What it does
Scite is an AI research platform built for researchers, students, and industry experts. Users ask questions or look up topics across scientific literature, and the platform delivers answers backed by full text publications along with context on whether findings are supported or contested.
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Smart Citations
Displays how subsequent publications have cited a study, indicating whether later research has supported, challenged, or discussed the findings. It lets users see if the evidence behind a paper or claim is solid or contested.
Use caseA researcher writing a paper checks whether earlier findings on flu seasonality have been affirmed or disputed by subsequent studies.
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AI Assistant
Generates answers to research questions using evidence signals from the wider literature. Every generated claim links directly to the exact sentence in the source paper for fast verification.
Use caseA student researching a topic asks a question to receive literature backed answers where every point can be checked against the original paper.
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Full text search
Searches inside the actual body of scholarly publications, preprints, books, patents, and datasets rather than limiting results to abstracts. It relies on licensed publisher agreements and open access material to read beyond paywalls.
Use caseA PhD student searches across millions of full text papers to locate specific methods and details buried inside published studies.
From scite.ai
Written from Scite's own website, checked . Each feature links to the page it comes from; images are Scite's own.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Per | What it includes |
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| Basic | $20 | $12 | per user | 250 MCP credits/mo, Collections up to 1,000 papers |
| Pro | $50 | Not listed | per user | 2,500 MCP credits/mo, Collections up to 10,000 papers, patent/clinical trial/grant data |
| Team | $50 | Not listed | per seat, up to 15 | Shared Collections and Alerts, user analytics |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Not listed | per organization | contact sales; unlimited users, SSO, API |
From Scite's own pricing page, checked . Prices are in US dollars per month; "billed yearly" is the monthly price when you pay for a year up front. Some of these figures came from third party reports and could not be confirmed on the official page.
Scite video tutorials
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The free trial
Trial only: 7 day free trial on monthly and yearly plans
Questions people ask about Scite
How much does Scite cost?
Paid plans start at $20 a month (Basic). 4 plans are listed above, from Scite's own pricing page.
Is Scite free?
There is a free trial but no free plan: 7 day free trial on monthly and yearly plans.
Does Scite have an API?
Yes.
Works with
- Integrations
- Claude, ChatGPT, Zotero
Where this came from
Plans, prices and limits were copied from Scite's own pages and the other sources listed, then checked .
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