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Connected Papers is a visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find academic papers relevant to their field of work. - connectedpapers.com
· 1 month ago
Buy if you're a researcher, PhD student, or applied scientist mapping related work around a paper you already have. Skip if you need exhaustive systematic reviews or the very newest publications.
High. Based on 12+ public sources: aggregated reviews, Reddit threads, university library guides, and comparison sites.
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Free plan hard-caps at 5 graphs/month; heavy literature passes force the upgrade
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Academic plan is $72 billed annually, not a true month-to-month $6
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One-shot ~50-paper graphs; systematic-review-scale work needs other or paid tooling
Value for money: 5/5
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Users love it for surfacing papers they'd otherwise miss; the recurring complaint is coverage of the newest publications.
“I was able to find links to a paper I hadn’t been able to find and discovered relevant papers I hadn’t seen before. Definitely recommend!”
“While the tool is excellent for finding related papers in your field, it might have some limitations when it comes to searching for the very latest publications”
“When researching a paper I always try to find papers that cited or were cited by instead so this will be a real short-cut! It's like the research version of ancestry.com.”
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Based on 12+ public sources: aggregated reviews, Reddit threads, university library guides, and comparison sites.
Cheap, visual literature scout: paste a seed paper, get ~50 related works. Weak for systematic reviews and newest papers.
Based on 12+ public sources: aggregated reviews, Reddit threads, university library guides, and comparison sites.
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