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Scite is an AI citation analysis platform that classifies 1.6B+ citation statements as Supporting, Contrasting, or Mentioning to help researchers evaluate scientific claims.
Smart Citation classification (Supporting/Contrasting/Mentioning); basic paper search; limited citation context viewing
Basic Smart Citation viewing; limited searches; no AI Research Assistant; no Reference Check; no custom dashboards
Research
9.5Smart Citations classify 1.6B+ citation statements as Supporting, Contrasting, or Mentioning with actual context text shown — enabling researchers to assess whether a cited claim has been supported or disputed by subsequent literature without reading each citing paper in full.
Education
8.5Students use Citation Statements search to surface debates and supporting evidence for specific claims across peer-reviewed literature; student and academic discounts available; Reference Check audits manuscript citations for editorial notices before submission; coverage gaps in humanities and social sciences limit utility for non-STEM disciplines.
Data Analysis
7.8Custom Dashboards provide journal, author, and institution-level citation analytics including annual Scite Index scores; Citation Statements search surfaces quantitative supporting/contrasting ratios for specific research claims; output is citation metadata, not raw experimental data.
Content Creation
7.0AI Research Assistant generates evidence-backed responses from scientific papers with citations for researchers and science writers needing credible sources; scope is limited to academic literature and is not suited for general marketing or creative content.
Personal Productivity
8.2Browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari overlays Smart Citation data on papers anywhere online including Google Scholar, PubMed, and journal websites, surfacing citation quality signals without switching tools or opening Scite directly.
Scite is an AI-powered academic research platform, now part of Research Solutions, that differentiates from all other research tools through Smart Citations — a classification system that labels each of 1.6 billion+ citation statements as Supporting, Contrasting, or Mentioning the cited claim, with the actual context text shown. This allows researchers to evaluate whether a paper's claims are substantiated or disputed by subsequent literature without manual reading. Core features include an AI Research Assistant grounded in scientific papers, Reference Check for manuscript citation auditing, and a browser extension overlaying Smart Citation data on papers across the web. Coverage is strongest in medicine, biology, and life sciences; humanities and social sciences have materially less coverage. Individual plans cost $20/month with a 7-day free trial.
Pricing
| Plan | Model | Usage Limits | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeFREE | Smart Citation classification (Supporting/Contrasting/Mentioning); basic paper search; limited citation context viewing | Basic Smart Citation viewing; limited searches; no AI Research Assistant; no Reference Check; no custom dashboards | Free |
| Individual | Full Smart Citations with context text; AI Research Assistant (citation-grounded AI chat); Reference Check; Citation Statements search (1.6B+ statements); Custom Dashboards; Scite Index analytics; browser extension; Zotero and Word plugins | Unlimited Smart Citation access; AI Research Assistant; Reference Check (manuscript upload); Citation Statements search; custom dashboards; browser extension; Zotero and Word plugins; student and academic discount available | $20/month or ~$12/month annual |
| Group/Enterprise | All Individual features; institutional analytics; publisher-level dashboards; API access; library integration | — | custom |
Smart Citation classification (Supporting/Contrasting/Mentioning); basic paper search; limited citation context viewing
Basic Smart Citation viewing; limited searches; no AI Research Assistant; no Reference Check; no custom dashboards
Smart Citations provide a capability absent in Consensus, Semantic Scholar, and Elicit — showing whether a specific paper's claims have been supported or contradicted by 1.6B+ subsequent citations, enabling systematic evaluation of research reliability without manual verification of each citing paper.
Individual plan at $20/month ($12/month annual with up to 40% student discount for institutional referral) provides Reference Check to audit manuscript citations before submission and Citation Statements search to find supporting evidence for thesis arguments; coverage gaps in humanities reduce value for non-STEM students.
Custom Dashboards expose journal-level and author-level Scite Index analytics for faculty evaluating research quality and teaching evidence-based critical analysis; student discount requires recommending institutional purchase, linking individual discount eligibility to institutional sales.
API available by application-only via sales@scite.ai for programmatic citation classification integration; Custom Dashboards provide structured citation ratio data (supporting/contrasting/mentioning percentages) exportable for meta-analysis and systematic review data pipelines.
Consider These Instead
Choose Consensus when the primary need is discovering papers and synthesising findings from 200M+ peer-reviewed papers via AI-generated summaries for literature reviews — Consensus's Deep Search and Consensus Meter provide better initial paper discovery than Scite's citation-evaluation focus. Choose Semantic Scholar when cost is a constraint and citation graph analysis, semantic search, and AI-generated summaries across 214M+ papers are needed at no charge — Semantic Scholar is fully free with a public API while Scite requires $20/month after a 7-day trial. Choose Elicit when structured data extraction from academic papers with custom comparison tables across multiple papers is the primary systematic review workflow requirement, rather than citation quality classification.
