ResearchRabbit

ResearchRabbit

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Free AI-powered literature discovery tool that builds visual citation maps from your seed papers to uncover connected research.

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What is ResearchRabbit?

ResearchRabbit is an AI-powered academic paper discovery platform often described as the Spotify for research papers. Instead of searching by keyword, users start with one or more seed papers and ResearchRabbit builds an interactive visual map of connected papers, showing prior work, derivative studies, and related authors across a database of 280 million articles. The platform learns from your reading and curation choices to surface increasingly personalized recommendations, similar to a recommendation engine for academic literature. Users can create unlimited collections, collaborate with lab teammates, sync directly with Zotero, and receive weekly email alerts for new papers matching their interests. The free plan is fully functional with no usage caps, making it the most generous free tool in the academic discovery space. A premium RR+ plan launched in 2025 for users needing more advanced search and larger collection capacities.

Key Features

Visual Citation Maps280M+ Paper DatabaseSeed Paper DiscoveryPrior and Derivative Work MappingAuthor Network VisualizationUnlimited CollectionsCollaborative WorkspacesZotero SyncEmail Alerts for New PapersPersonalized RecommendationsBibTeX and RIS ExportTimeline View by YearInfluential Paper HighlightingCross-Collection SearchIntegrated Note-TakingCountry-Based Pricing for PremiumLitmaps-Powered Advanced Search

How to Use ResearchRabbit

1Sign up free at researchrabbit.ai
2Add one or more seed papers to a new collection
3Explore the visual citation map of related papers and authors
4Curate your collection and remove irrelevant papers
5Enable alerts to receive weekly updates on new related publications

✅ Best For

  • PhD students and academic researchers who are mapping a new research field for the first time and need to understand the citation landscape before committing to a topic or direction.
  • Research teams and labs who collaborate on shared literature collections and want a visual, non-keyword-based way to discover what they might be missing in their field.
  • Librarians and faculty building reading lists who want to visually show students how foundational papers connect to contemporary research in an interactive map format.

❌ Not For

  • Researchers who need full-text PDF reading, annotation, or AI-powered explanation tools within the platform, as ResearchRabbit is focused purely on discovery and mapping rather than in-depth reading assistance.
  • Users who need systematic review workflows with screening, PRISMA compliance, or structured data extraction, as ResearchRabbit does not offer these research management features.

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Pricing

Free$0
  • ✓Unlimited search
  • ✓unlimited collections
  • ✓collaboration
  • ✓Zotero sync
  • ✓email alerts
RR+Custom (country-based pricing)
  • ✓Advanced searches
  • ✓deeper connections
  • ✓larger collection capacity
  • ✓Litmaps-powered features

Prompts to Try

Find papers related to this foundational study on attention mechanisms in neural networks

Show me who is citing this paper on antibiotic resistance and what they are saying

Map the research landscape around this seed paper on microbiome and obesity

Use Cases

A first-year PhD student in environmental science adds three landmark papers on ocean acidification as seeds in ResearchRabbit and within minutes has a visual map of 80 connected studies, helping her build a comprehensive literature review base in two hours instead of two weeks.
A lab manager sets up a shared ResearchRabbit collection for her team's oncology project and enables weekly alerts so every team member receives new relevant papers automatically, keeping the group aligned without weekly literature meeting prep.
A behavioral economist adds five foundational papers on nudge theory and uses ResearchRabbit's author map to discover a prolific researcher he had never encountered, leading him to 12 additional highly relevant studies.
A postdoc syncs ResearchRabbit with his Zotero library, using visual maps to spot gaps in his reference collection before submitting a paper, and adds four missing foundational citations in one session.
A humanities professor building a graduate seminar uses ResearchRabbit to show students how ideas evolved from a 1960s paper through to 2024, creating a shareable visual timeline they explore interactively in class.

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