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scite
Scite helps researchers search scientific literature, evaluate citation context, and trace whether findings are supported, contradicted, or mentioned.
Scite is a research platform with an AI Assistant, full-text search, Smart Citations, citation graphs, and Collections for organizing papers. It covers scholarly articles and also provides access to patents, clinical trials, grants, preprints, and datasets.
Researchers, students, academics, and research teams use it for literature reviews, evidence checking, and citation analysis. The free Connect plan works inside AI tools but does not include Scite Assistant or Search; API access is listed in the Pro plan.
Features
- Ask research questions with answers grounded in scientific literature
- Search inside the full text of scholarly articles
- Show whether later research supports, contrasts with, or mentions findings
- Trace references and citing papers with the citation_graph MCP tool
- Organize and monitor papers in Collections
- Search patents, clinical trials, grants, preprints, and datasets
- Connect with ChatGPT, Claude, Zotero, and MCP-compatible tools
- Access programmatic data through the Scite API
Use cases
- Review literature and identify relevant papers
- Check whether later studies support or challenge a finding
- Trace how a method or theory developed across papers
- Monitor citations and new research in a topic area
- Verify evidence and citation context before writing
- Connect citation data to an AI research workflow
Pros
Cons
Pricing
- Starting price
- Free
- Pricing checked
- 2026-09-19
Connect
Free
- 25 MCP credits/month
- Use in ChatGPT, Claude, & more
- Grounded in 300M+ papers
- No Assistant or Search access
Basic
$20 / month
- Full Assistant & Search access
- 250 MCP credits/month
- Article Smart Citation reports
- Collections up to 1,000 papers
- Citation alerts & dashboards
Pro
$50 / month
- Everything in Basic, plus:
- API access
- $60 API credit included, limited time only
- 2,500 MCP credits/month
- Collections up to 10,000 papers
- Patent, clinical trial, & grant datasets