Scite

Overview

Scite is an AI-powered research platform designed to help researchers discover, evaluate, and verify scientific literature. At its core is Smart Citations, a patented approach that classifies citations based on whether later research supports, contradicts, or merely mentions a given paper. This moves beyond simple citation counts and enables users to assess the strength of evidence behind a study quickly and accurately.

The platform is built on one of the largest licensed scholarly databases in AI research, with direct agreements with publishers including Wiley, SAGE, and 30+ others, plus the full open-access corpus. Scite indexes more than 300 million articles, preprints, books, patents, and datasets, and over 1.6 billion citations. The AI Assistant allows users to ask natural-language questions and receive answers that are grounded in real papers with every claim linked to a specific sentence in a specific source, eliminating hallucinated or unverifiable responses.

Scite also covers sources beyond traditional journals, extending to patents, clinical trials, grants, preprints, and datasets. This broad coverage lets users trace an idea from funded proposal to published finding and on to commercial application. The platform works where researchers already work: inside Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible assistant, directly within Zotero, and through an API for teams building custom workflows.

With over 2 million researchers, students, and industry experts, Scite is a widely adopted research companion. Its verification-focused design means every answer is reproducible and checkable in one click, making it a reliable tool for systematic reviews, literature exploration, and scholarly writing. Part of Research Solutions, Scite continues to serve universities, companies, and individual researchers committed to making science more reliable and transparent.

Core capabilities

Smart Citations

See whether a finding has been supported, contradicted, or merely mentioned by later research, providing contextual evidence for any paper, claim, method, journal, author, institution, or funder.

AI Assistant

Ask research questions and receive comprehensive answers grounded in the scientific literature, with every claim linked back to specific sentences in specific papers.

Full-Text Search

Go beyond abstracts to search inside the full text of 300M+ articles, preprints, books, patents, and datasets, finding results other tools can't reach.

Verifiable Evidence

Every answer is backed by real papers with direct links, allowing users to verify sources in one click rather than re-validating the output.

Best Coverage

Built on the largest licensed database of scholarly content in AI research, including agreements with 40+ publishers and the full open-access corpus.

Multi-Source Database

Access not just journal articles but also patents, clinical trials, grants, preprints, and datasets, enabling full research lifecycle tracking.

Seamless Integrations

Work inside Claude, ChatGPT, and any MCP-compatible assistant, plus Zotero and API access for teams building custom research tools.

Reference Check

Automatically screen reference lists for retractions, withdrawals, expressions of concern, corrections, and other editorial notices.

Use cases

Conducting literature reviews to identify supporting and contradicting evidence for a specific claim or paper

Writing research papers by quickly finding credible related work and citations

Assessing the strength and reliability of studies before citing them in publications

Checking manuscript reference lists for retractions or editorial concerns

Tracing an idea from grant proposals through published research to commercial patents

Building custom research tools or workflows using Scite's API

Integrating AI-powered literature verification into writing assistants or knowledge management systems