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Connected Papers
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Widely used visual tool for exploring related academic papers.
873K visits/mo
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Writer
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Enterprise AI platform where marketing, sales, and support teams build governed AI agents on Writer's own Palmyra models.
282K visits/mo
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Open Knowledge Maps
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Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.
113K visits/mo1.1K saves
Pricing
Free: USD 0
Academic: USD 3 /month*
Business: USD 10 /month*
Academic Group: 3 USD / seat / month*
Business Group: 10 USD / seat / month*
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Core features
- ✦Visual graph generation of related academic papers
- ✦Discovery of prior and derivative works
- ✦Identification of important and relevant papers
- ✦Exploration of research field dynamics
- ✦WRITER Agent for delegating end-to-end tasks in natural language
- ✦Agent Playbooks for repeatable, on-brand workflows
- ✦AI Studio for building custom agents on company data
- ✦Knowledge Graph for grounding agents in company-specific context
- ✦Palmyra proprietary LLMs built for regulated enterprises
- ✦Enterprise security, identity, and compliance controls for IT
- ✦AI-generated visual maps of research topics
- ✦Clusters papers into themes
- ✦Open-access resource discovery
- ✦Open-source and nonprofit
- ✦Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
Use cases
- →Getting a visual overview of a new academic field
- →Ensuring no key papers are missed in a field with a large volume of new publications
- →Creating a bibliography for a thesis
- →Discovering relevant prior and derivative works
- →Automating on-brand marketing content production at scale
- →Handling inbound customer support responses with AI agents
- →Building custom AI agents connected to a company's internal systems
- →Enforcing brand voice and terminology consistency across teams
- →Deploying AI under enterprise security and compliance requirements
- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems
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