scite
Free tierSmart citation tool that shows how scientific papers have been cited
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Smart Citations showing whether studies support or contradict a claim317M+ full-text scholarly articles indexed1.6B+ citations indexedAgreements with 44+ publishersVerifiable evidence linked to specific sentences in papersCoverage of patents, clinical trials, grants, preprints, and datasets
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Henderson, USA
Founded 2018
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- Citation graph analysis: Use the Scite API to build tools that traverse 1.6B+ citations and classify relationships (supporting, contrasting, mentioning) at the sentence level across 317M+ full-text articles.
- AI workflow augmentation: Integrate Scite with Claude, ChatGPT, or MCP to ground LLM outputs in verifiable, sentence-level scholarly evidence rather than unverified model knowledge.
- Reference manager enrichment: Connect Scite to Zotero to automatically annotate a library with Smart Citation metadata, surfacing contradicted or well-supported sources.
- Systematic literature review automation: Query Scite's corpus — spanning journal articles, patents, clinical trials, grants, preprints, and datasets — to automate evidence gathering pipelines for research teams.
- Enterprise knowledge systems: Deploy Scite at scale via Team ($250/month, 8 seats) or Enterprise (custom) tiers to power internal research intelligence platforms with publisher-verified data from 44+ agreements.
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