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Connected Papers
✓ verifiedFreemium

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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