Semantic Analysis

Tools for searching:

• OpenAlex, free, an alternative to Google Scholar that uses the data from the defunct Microsoft Academic Graph.

• Consensus: AI-powered Academic Search Engine, uses Semantic Scholar data, a paid service.

• Undermind - Radically better research and discovery, paid service that uses an agent to provide results, slower but with more meaningful results..

• ResearchRabbit, Video introduction: Research Rabbit & Zotero Sync | Research Paper Discovery Will Never Be The Same - YouTube

• Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool, free

• Elicit: The AI Research Assistant, paid, with a free tier

Tools for literature analysis that can also interface with Zotero:

• Citation Gecko trace citations, for the GitHub app see here

• Connected Papers explore connected papers in a visual graph

• scite_ find if research has been supported or contradicted in literature, scite_ plugin for Zotero

• Zotero-mdnotes a Zotero plugin to export item metadata and notes as markdown files.

• GitHub - jaks6/citation_map create a Gephi Citation Graph based on Text Analysis of PDFs from Zotero

• Local Citation Network graph Zotero citations, see here for the discussion, an article on this and Citation Gecko is here

• Cita a Zotero plugin adding citation metadata support, with back and forth communication to WikiData, citation extraction from file attachments, and local citation network visualization.

• 3 tools for Literature mapping — Connected Papers, Inciteful and Litmaps

• Accueil | Cosma (graphlab.fr) A visualization and sharing tool for knowledge workers

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Backlinks

• Student Guidelines