Perplexity
Explore a subject and quickly trace claims back to sources that you should verify.
Best for: starting a literature review.
Open Perplexity ↗Choose the right tool to explore the literature, understand papers, organise your references and prepare presentations—while keeping your critical thinking in control.
Find papers, map a field and assess the strength of citations.
Explore a subject and quickly trace claims back to sources that you should verify.
Best for: starting a literature review.
Open Perplexity ↗Search scientific literature through questions and compare conclusions across studies.
Best for: quickly assessing the state of evidence.
Open Consensus ↗Explore networks of authors and publications around a seed paper.
Best for: finding related references.
Open ResearchRabbit ↗Explore a topic, organise collected information and prepare an initial documented synthesis.
Best for: framing a literature search.
Open STORM ↗A documentary research platform dedicated to Arabic-language academic and scientific resources.
Best for: searching Arabic scholarly literature.
Open Mandumah ↗See whether a paper is supported, contrasted or mentioned by the research that cites it.
Best for: checking a key source.
Open Scite ↗Ask questions about your papers, clarify methods and retain useful notes.
Ask questions of your own documents and create source-grounded summaries.
Best for: preparing a chapter or a literature review.
Open NotebookLM ↗Get assistance reading complex papers, especially methods and technical concepts.
Best for: understanding a technical article.
Open SciSpace ↗Your foundation for collecting, annotating and correctly citing sources.
Collect, organise, annotate and cite references from your browser and word processor.
Best for: most PhD students.
Open Zotero ↗Manage shared libraries and annotate references with your team.
Best for: collaborative projects.
Open Mendeley ↗A reference manager widely used in university and health research environments.
Best for: institutions already using EndNote.
Open EndNote ↗Make your ideas, models and findings clearer to your audience.
Visualise relationships between publications to identify significant papers in a field.
Best for: understanding a research landscape.
Open Connected Papers ↗Create a first presentation structure, then refine it using your verified content.
Best for: a talk or thesis defence.
Open Gamma ↗Turn an explanation into a visual draft that you can review and improve.
Best for: illustrating a conceptual framework.
Open Napkin AI ↗NBProf can help you choose tools, structure your method and use AI with academic integrity.